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Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory Visible Man and The Spirit of Film

Balázs, Béla Carter Erica Livingstone Rodney
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781845456603
Publisert
2010-05-01
Utgiver
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Berghahn Books
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621 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
314

Redaktør
Balázs, Béla
Carter Erica
Livingstone Rodney

Biographical note

Béla Balázs was a Hungarian Jewish film theorist, author, screenwriter and film director who was at the forefront of Hungarian literary life before being forced into exile for Communist activity after 1919. His German-language theoretical essays on film date from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, the period of his early exile in Vienna and Berlin.

Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory Visible Man and The Spirit of Film

Balázs, Béla Carter Erica Livingstone Rodney
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk
Balázs, Béla Carter Erica Livingstone Rodney
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk
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<em>“This book will benefit any student encountering Film Theory in either an introductory, intermediate or advanced course or any context where deepening our understanding or love for film is the goal.”</em> <strong>• Bright Lights Film Journal</strong></p>
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<em>“[The book is] part of the Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context series. [It] has an attractive typeface and a well-designed layout. In addition to Carter’s introduction there is also a useful Glossary of terms and an Appendix with two reviews… In all, this book is a very good introduction to Balázs’ film philosophy and a long overdue entry into the English-speaking world of film literature.”</em> <strong>• Screening the Past</strong></p>
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<em>“An exemplary book in every way, this translation makes Balázs' revolutionary texts available in English for the first time… Dating from 1924 and 1930 respectively, </em>The Visible Man <em>and</em> The Spirit of Film <em>had a decisive influence on such major Russian filmmakers as Vsevolod Pudovkin and Sergei Eisenstein, and were among the first studies to examine filmic syntax, grammar, and editorial structure. Including a detailed introduction and numerous illustrations, this volume is a must for anyone serious about film… Highly recommended.”</em> <strong>• Choice</strong></p>

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.
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Bela Balazs'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.
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Glossary Editorial Erica Carter Visible Man or the Culture of Film Three Addresses by Way of a Preface I. May We Come In? II. To Directors and Other Fellow Practitioners III. On Creative Enjoyment Visible Man Sketches For a Theory of Film The Substance of Film Type and Physiognomy The Play of Facial Expressions The Close-Up The Face of Things Nature and Naturalness Visual Linkage Supplementary Fragments World View Two Portraits Chaplin, the Ordinary American Asta Nielsen: How She Loves and How She Grows Old 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 Sound Film Ideological Remarks Appendix: Reviews I: Siegfried Kracauer, ‘A new film book’ (1930) Reviews II: Rudolf Arnheim, The Spirit of Film (1930)
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<p>
<em>“This book will benefit any student encountering Film Theory in either an introductory, intermediate or advanced course or any context where deepening our understanding or love for film is the goal.”</em> <strong>• Bright Lights Film Journal</strong></p>
<p>
<em>“[The book is] part of the Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context series. [It] has an attractive typeface and a well-designed layout. In addition to Carter’s introduction there is also a useful Glossary of terms and an Appendix with two reviews… In all, this book is a very good introduction to Balázs’ film philosophy and a long overdue entry into the English-speaking world of film literature.”</em> <strong>• Screening the Past</strong></p>
<p>
<em>“An exemplary book in every way, this translation makes Balázs' revolutionary texts available in English for the first time… Dating from 1924 and 1930 respectively, </em>The Visible Man <em>and</em> The Spirit of Film <em>had a decisive influence on such major Russian filmmakers as Vsevolod Pudovkin and Sergei Eisenstein, and were among the first studies to examine filmic syntax, grammar, and editorial structure. Including a detailed introduction and numerous illustrations, this volume is a must for anyone serious about film… Highly recommended.”</em> <strong>• Choice</strong></p>

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.
Les mer
Bela Balazs'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.
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Glossary Editorial Erica Carter Visible Man or the Culture of Film Three Addresses by Way of a Preface I. May We Come In? II. To Directors and Other Fellow Practitioners III. On Creative Enjoyment Visible Man Sketches For a Theory of Film The Substance of Film Type and Physiognomy The Play of Facial Expressions The Close-Up The Face of Things Nature and Naturalness Visual Linkage Supplementary Fragments World View Two Portraits Chaplin, the Ordinary American Asta Nielsen: How She Loves and How She Grows Old 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 Sound Film Ideological Remarks Appendix: Reviews I: Siegfried Kracauer, ‘A new film book’ (1930) Reviews II: Rudolf Arnheim, The Spirit of Film (1930)
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781845456603
Publisert
2010-05-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Vekt
621 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
314

Redaktør
Balázs, Béla
Carter Erica
Livingstone Rodney

Biographical note

Béla Balázs was a Hungarian Jewish film theorist, author, screenwriter and film director who was at the forefront of Hungarian literary life before being forced into exile for Communist activity after 1919. His German-language theoretical essays on film date from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, the period of his early exile in Vienna and Berlin.

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