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

Explores classical and contemporary theories of cinematic realism to assess their overall key concepts and intellectual configurations. Explores classical theories of cinematic realism more deeply through an analysis of Lukacs/Bergson/time and Kracauer/Husserl/Space. Offers some conclusions on what...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Aitken, Ian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Lukács, György, > 1885-1971.
Kracauer, Siegfried, > 1889-1966.
Realism in motion pictures.
Réalisme au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Representation, perception and cinematic realism
  • Bergson, the image and time
  • Introduction to Lukács: essence, phenomena and temporality
  • 'On the phenomenology of the creative process' (Lukács 1914)
  • 'Thoughts towards an aesthetic of the cinema' (Lukács 1913)
  • The specificity of the aesthetic (Lukács 1963)
  • Husserl, Epochē and Lebenswelt
  • Introduction to Kracauer: abstraction, redemption and modernity
  • 'Photography' (Kracauer 1927)
  • 'Introduction: Photography' and 'Basic Concepts', from Theory of film (Kracauer 1960)
  • 'The Historical Approach' and 'The Historian's Journey', from History: the last things before the last (Kracauer 1968).

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