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Bela Balazs: Early Film Theory - Visible Man and The Spirit of Film (Paperback)
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Bela Balazs: Early Film Theory - Visible Man and The Spirit of Film (Paperback)
Series: Film Europa
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" 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 Balazs' film
philosophy and a long overdue entry into the English-speaking world
of film literature." . Screening the Past "An exemplary book in
every way, this translation makes Balazs' revolutionary texts
available in English for the first time ... Dating from 1924 and
1930 respectively, The Visible Man and The Spirit of Film 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." .
Choice 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. Balazs'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film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution
- such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin - to
critical debate on film in the 'golden age' of the Weimar silents.
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