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 (310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

The issue of cinematic realism is important because the issue of realism, of the relationship between representation and reality, is important. If some forms of representation are closer to reality - however defined - than others, then this may also be the case with forms of filmic representation. In this book, 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.<br><br>Focusing on the writings of Georg Lukács and Siegfried Kracauer, Cinematic Realism is a comprehensive exploration of cinematic realist theory.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-9532-X

1-4744-4136-X

OCLC:

1306539691