Cinematic realism : Lukács, Kracauer and theories of the filmic real / Ian Aitken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aitken, Ian, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lukács, György, 1885-1971.

Lukács, György.

Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966.

Kracauer, Siegfried.

Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.

Bergson, Henri.

Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.

Husserl, Edmund.

Realism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Ian Aitken links the issue of cinematic realism to important questions concerning human experience, analysing the close similarity between the film image and visual perception, and how different theories of realism have sought to uncover the way film's relation to reality can be understood.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: Representation, Perception and Cinematic Realism

1. Bergson, the Image and Time

2. Introduction to Lukács: Essence, Phenomena and Temporality

3. ‘On the Phenomenology of the Creative Process’ (Lukács 1914)

4. ‘Thoughts towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema’ (Lukács 1913)

5. The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Lukács 1963)

6. Husserl, Epochē and Lebenswelt

7. Introduction to Kracauer: Abstraction, Redemption and Modernity

8. ‘Photography’ (Kracauer 1927)

9. ‘Introduction: Photography’ and ‘Basic Concepts’, from Theory of Film (Kracauer 1960)

10. ‘The Historical Approach’ and ‘The Historian’s Journey’, from History: The Last Things Before the Last (Kracauer 1968)

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-9532-X

1-4744-4136-X

OCLC:

1306539691