Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory: <i>Visible Man</i> and <i>The Spirit of Film</i>Béla Balázs, Erica Carter, Rodney Livingstone Berghahn Books, 01.05.2010 - 314 Seiten 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analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution – alongside such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin – to critical debate on film in the ‘golden age’ of the Weimar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. |
Inhalt
| vii | |
| ix | |
| xv | |
Illustrations | xlvii |
Visible Man or the Culture of Film | 1 |
Preface | 3 |
Chapter 1 Visible Man | 9 |
Chapter 2 Sketches for a Theory of Film | 17 |
Chapter 7 Setup | 112 |
Chapter 8 Montage | 122 |
Chapter 9 Montage Without Cutting | 132 |
Chapter 10 Flight from the Story | 146 |
Chapter 11 The Absolute Film | 159 |
Chapter 12 Colour Film and Other Possibilities | 178 |
Chapter 13 The Sound Film | 183 |
Chapter 14 Ideological Remarks | 211 |
Chapter 3 Two Portraits | 85 |
The Spirit of Film | 91 |
Chapter 4 Seven Years | 93 |
Chapter 5 The Productive Camera | 98 |
Chapter 6 The Closeup | 100 |
Reviews | 231 |
| 235 | |
| 237 | |
| 241 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absolute film abstract acoustic action actors aesthetic Alfred Abel already appears artistic associations Asta Nielsen Balázs’s beautiful become Béla Balázs body Budapest camera set-up character cinema close-up colour concrete contrast create culture depict dialogue director dissolve dramatic dream effect Eisenstein emotional entire example experience expressionism eyes face facial expressions fact fairy fairy tale featuring feelings figures film theory film’s filmic gaze German gestures hear human ideas ideology imagination impression individual inner intellectual intertitles kitsch landscape language Lilian Gish literary living long shot Lukács mass meaning montage mood motif movement narrative nature objects optical petty bourgeois photographed physiognomy play possible psychological pure reality rhythm romanticism Russian scene screen sequence Siegfried Kracauer silent film simply social soul sound film space spatial Spirit of Film stage story storyline style symbolic tempo theatre things TotF transformed visible visual words