The Major Realist Film Theorists: A Critical Anthology

Ian Aitken

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

The Major Realist Film Theorists

A Critical Anthology

Ian Aitken

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474402224

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A critical re-examination of four major realist film theorists

From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin and Georg Lukács dominated realist film theory. In this critical anthology, the first collection to address their work in one volume, a wide range of international scholars explore the interconnections between their ideas and help generate new understandings of this important, if neglected, field. Challenging preconceptions about ‘classical’ theory and the nature of realist representation, and in the process demonstrating how this body of work can be seen as a cohesive theoretical model, this invaluable collection will help return the realist paradigm of film theory to the forefront of academic enquiry.

Contributors include

Ian Aitken, Hong Kong Baptist University
Scott Anthony, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Gary Evans, University of Ottawa
Tara Forrest, University of Technology, Sydney
Ramona Fotiade, University of Glasgow
Angelos Koutsourakis, University of Queensland
Henry K. Miller, Cambridge University
Seung-hoon Jeong, New York University, Abu Dhabi
Pierre Sorlin, Sorbonne University, Paris
Temenuga Trifonova, York University, Toronto
Tyson Wils, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Xu Yaping, China University of Political Science and Law

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Introduction Ian Aitken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Displaced Vision: The Politics of Realism in Kracauer and Kluge Tara Forrest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter 2 The Rhetoric of Madness in Realist Film Theory Temenuga Trifonova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 3 Phenomenology, Theology and ‘Physical Reality’: The Film Theory Realism of Siegfried Kracauer Tyson Wils Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 4 ‘Montage, My Fine Care’: Realism, Surrealism and Postmodernism after Bazin Ramona Fotiade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 5 Multiple Indexicality and Multiple Realism in André Bazin Seung-hoon Jeong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter 6 André Bazin, or the Ambiguity of Reality Pierre Sorlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Chapter 7 Realism is to Think Historically: Overlapping Elements in Lukácsian and Brechtian Theories of Realism Angelos Koutsourakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 8 The Moving-image Redemption of Orality and Lukács’s Early Writing on the Cinema Apple Xu Yaping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 9 The ‘Naturalist’ Treatment of Film in The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Georg Lukács, 1963) and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1962; Caspar Wrede, 1970) Ian Aitken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter 10 The Documentary Version of Film History Henry K. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Chapter 11 The Grierson Testament, 1969–71 Gary Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter 12 John Grierson: From the Poster Movement to the Informational State Scott Anthony Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: May 27, 2016
ISBN: 9781474402224