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Béla Balázs : early film theory : Visible man and The spirit of film

Author: Béla Balázs; Erica Carter
Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Series: Film Europa, v. 10.
Edition/Format:  Book : English : 1. pbk. ed. 2011View all editions and formats
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"Béla Balázs'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. Balázs's detailed analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are
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Balázs, Béla, 1884-1949.
Béla Balázs.
New York : Berghahn Books, 2010
(OCoLC)663738261
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Béla Balázs; Erica Carter
ISBN: 9781845456603 1845456602 9780857453556 0857453556
OCLC Number: 326626793
Description: xlvi, 258 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: I. May We Come In? --
II. To Directors and Other Fellow Practitioners --
III. On Creative Enjoyment --
Visible Man --
Sketches For a Theory of Film ; The Substance of Film Type and Physiognomy ; The Play of Facial Expressions ; The Close-Up ; The Face of Things ; Nature and Naturalness ; Visual Linkage ; Supplementary Fragments ; World View --
Two Portraits ; Chaplin, the Ordinary American ; Asta Nielsen: How She Loves and How She Grows Old --
The Spirit of Film ; Seven Years ; The Productive Camera ; The Close-Up ; Set-Up Montage ; Montage Without Cutting Flight From the Story ; The Absolute Film ; Colour Film and Other Possibilities ; Sound Film Ideological Remarks.
Series Title: Film Europa, v. 10.
Other Titles: Sichtbare mensch.
Responsibility: Béla Balázs ; edited by Erica Carter ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

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