Realist Film Theory and Cinema - The Nineteenth-Century LukaCsian and Intuitionist Realist Traditions (Hardcover)

Comprehensive and unique in covering all major realist film theorists including Grierson, Kracauer, Bazin and Lukacs, and in linking these 20th-century traditions to themes and characteristics of 19th-century realism in literature and painting The first book to attempt a rigorous and systematic application of realist film theory to the analysis of particular films The first book to attempt a comparative analysis of the theories of Grierson, Bazin and Kracauer, and also throws new light on Lukacs theory of realism, making a clear and novel distinction between his literary and cinematic theories of realism Attempts to establish a new paradigm of film theory around realism, and challenges some of the major contemporary positions in the field Proposes a new approach to film studies based on the development of a new category of realist film research

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Ian Aitken
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-7000-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN:	0-7190-7000-7
Barcode:	9780719070006

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