| Description |
x, 278 pages ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
A Galaxy book ; GB450 |
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Galaxy book ; GB450.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1 : The formative tradition -- Hugo Munsterberg. Matter and means ; Form and function -- Rudolf Arnheim. Material ; The creative use of the medium ; Film form ; The purpose of film -- Sergei Eisenstein. The raw material of film ; Cinematic means : creation through montage ; Film form ; The final purpose of film -- Béla Balázs and the tradition of formalism. A summary of formative film theory ; Russian formalism ; Béla Balázs ; The raw material of film art ; The creative potential of film technique ; Cinematic shape or form ; Cinematic functions -- Part 2 : Realist film theory -- Siegfried Kracauer. Matter and means ; Compositional forms ; The purpose of cinema ; Rebuttals -- André Bazin. The raw material ; Cinematic means and form ; The function of cinema -- Part 3 : Contemporary French film theory -- Jean Mitry. The raw material ; Creative potential in film ; The form and purpose of cinema -- Christian Metz and the semiology of the cinema. The raw material ; The means of signification in cinema ; The forms and possibilities of film ; Semiology and the purposes of film -- The challenge of phenomenology : Amédée Ayfre and Henri Agel. |
| Summary |
Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz.--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
(OCoLC)fst01027288
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| ISBN |
0195019911 |
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9780195019919 |
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