Cinematic Realism

Lukács, Kracauer and Theories of the Filmic Real

Ian Aitken (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4134-6 (ISBN)

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The issue of cinematic realism is important because the issue of realism, of the relationship between representation and reality, is important. If some forms of representation are closer to reality – however defined – than others, then this may also be the case with forms of filmic representation. In this book, Ian Aitken links the issue of cinematic realism to important questions concerning human experience, analysing the close similarity between the film image and visual perception, and how different theories of realism have sought to uncover the way film’s relation to reality can be understood.
Focusing on the writings of Georg Lukács and Siegfried Kracauer, Cinematic Realism is a comprehensive exploration of cinematic realist theory.

Ian Aitken was a chair professor, and is now an Emeritus Professor, affiliated to Hong Kong Baptist University. His areas of expertise lie in British documentary film studies, the British official film in South-East Asia, and theories of cinematic realism. His most recent book publications include Cinematic Realism (2020), The Major Realist Film Theorists (ed.), The British Official Film in South-East Asia (2016), and The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia (2016).

Introduction: Representation, perception, and cinematic realism

Chapter 1: Bergson, the image, and time

Chapter 2: Introduction to Lukács; essence, phenomena and temporality

Chapter 3: ‘On the Phenomenology of the Creative Process’ (Lukács, 1914)

Chapter 4: ‘Thoughts towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema’ (Lukács, 1913)

Chapter 5: The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Lukács, 1963)

Chapter 6: Husserl, epochē, and Lebenswelt

Chapter 7: Introduction to Kracauer; abstraction, redemption and modernity

Chapter 8: ‘Photography’ (Kracauer, 1927)

Chapter 9: ‘Introduction: Photography’ and ‘Basic Concepts’, from Theory of Film (Kracauer, 1960)

Chapter 10: ‘The Historical Approach’, and ‘The Historian’s Journey’, from History: The Last Things Before the Last (Kracauer, 1968)

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.03.2020
Zusatzinfo	1 black and white illustration
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	616 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-4134-3 / 1474441343
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4134-6 / 9781474441346
Zustand	Neuware