Cinematic Realism

Lukács, Kracauer and Theories of the Filmic Real (livre en anglais)

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de Ian Aitken

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Théorie

Mots Clés

réalisme, Georg Lukács, Siegfried Kracauer, théorie

Année d'édition

2020

Editeur

Edinburgh University Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Relié • 320 pages
15,5 x 23,5 cm

ISBN

978-1-4744-4134-6

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Assesses classical and contemporary theories of cinematic realism
• Explores classical and contemporary theories of cinematic realism to assess their overall key concepts and intellectual configurations
• Explores classical theories of cinematic realism more deeply through an analysis of Lukacs/Bergson/time and Kracauer/Husserl/Space
• Offers some conclusions on what the central key concepts and intellectual configuration of cinematic realism are; and on what consequences flow from this

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.

À propos de l'auteur :
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).

Revue de Presse :
For decades Ian Aitken has been thinking deeply about cinematic realism, working tirelessly to interrogate the fundamental premises and limitations of previous theories of representation and reality. This latest book presents the apogee of his thinking, revealing via a series of intense readings of Lukács and Kracauer the implicit philosophical assumptions, methods, and problems behind their theoretical systems.– Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University

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