The Major Realist Film Theorists
A Critical Anthology
Edited by Ian Aitken
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Book Presentation:
A critical re-examination of four major realist film theorists
From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin and Georg Lukács dominated realist film theory. In this critical anthology, the first collection to address their work in one volume, a wide range of international scholars explore the interconnections between their ideas and help generate new understandings of this important, if neglected, field. Challenging preconceptions about ‘classical’ theory and the nature of realist representation, and in the process demonstrating how this body of work can be seen as a cohesive theoretical model, this invaluable collection will help return the realist paradigm of film theory to the forefront of academic enquiry.
Contributors include
• Ian Aitken, Hong Kong Baptist University
• Scott Anthony, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Gary Evans, University of Ottawa
• Tara Forrest, University of Technology, Sydney
• Ramona Fotiade, University of Glasgow
• Angelos Koutsourakis, University of Queensland
• Henry K. Miller, Cambridge University
• Seung-hoon Jeong, New York University, Abu Dhabi
• Pierre Sorlin, Sorbonne University, Paris
• Temenuga Trifonova, York University, Toronto
• Tyson Wils, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
• Xu Yaping, China University of Political Science and Law
About the Author:
Ian Aitken is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. His publications include Hong Kong Documentary Film (2014), Lukácsian Film Theory and Cinema: An Analysis of Georg Lukács’ Writings on Film 1913-1971 (2012), The Major Realist Film Theorists, (2016), Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asian (2016) and Cinematic Realism (2020).
> From the same author:
Cinematic Realism (2020)
Lukács, Kracauer and Theories of the Filmic Real
by Ian Aitken
Subject: Theory
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (2017)
Dir. Ian Aitken
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia (2016)
Dir. Ian Aitken and Camille Deprez
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
The British Official Film in South-East Asia (2016)
Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong
by Ian Aitken
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
Film and Reform (2016)
John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement
by Ian Aitken
Subject: Director > John Grierson
Lukácsian Film Theory and Cinema (2012)
A Study of Georg Lukács' Writing on Film 1913-1971
by Ian Aitken
Subject: Film Analysis
Realist Film Theory and Cinema (2006)
The Nineteenth-Century Lukácsian and Intuitionist Realist Traditions
by Ian Aitken
Subject: Theory
> On a related topic:
Cinema and Experience (2011)
Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno
Dir. Miriam Bratu Hansen
Subject: Theory
Opening Bazin (2011)
Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife
Dir. Dudley Andrew and Herve Joubert-Laurencin
Subject: Theory
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