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Bela Balazs : early film theory : Visible man and The spirit of film / Bela Balazs ; edited by Erica Carter ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balázs, Béla, 1884-1949.
- Series:
- Film Europa ; v. 10.
- Film Europa : German cinema in an international context ; [10]
- Standardized Title:
- Sichtbare mensch. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xlvi, 258 p., [10] p. of plates : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Béla Balázs’s two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies audience in the English-speaking world. Balázs’s detailed analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution – alongside such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin – to critical debate on film in the ‘golden age’ of the Weimar silents.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- NOTES ON TRANSLATION, GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- VISIBLE MAN or the Culture of Film
- THREE ADDRESSES BY WAY OF A PREFACE
- VISIBLE MAN
- SKETCHES FOR A THEORY OF FILM
- TWO PORTRAITS
- THE SPIRIT OF FILM
- SEVEN YEARS
- THE PRODUCTIVE CAMERA
- THE CLOSE-UP
- SET-UP
- MONTAGE
- MONTAGE WITHOUT CUTTING
- FLIGHT FROM THE STORY
- THE ABSOLUTE FILM
- COLOUR FILM AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES
- THE SOUND FILM
- IDEOLOGICAL REMARKS
- APPENDIX: REVIEWS
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Balazs, Bela, 1884-1949. Geist des Films. English.
- ISBN:
- 9780857453556
- 0857453556
- 9781845457969
- 184545796X
- OCLC:
- 1350571196
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