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film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution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.
Bela Balazs 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.
Erica Carter is Professor of German Studies at the University of
Warwick. Her writings on film include The German Cinema Book
(co-ed. Tim Bergfelder & Deniz Gokturk, 2002), and Dietrich's
Ghosts. The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film
(2004).
Rodney Livingstone is Emeritus Professor of German at the
University of Southampton. He is an American Translators
Association award winner for his work on Detlef Claussen's Life of
Adorno: Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius (2008). He is well known
as a translator of books by Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and
Max Weber, among others."
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