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The major film theories : an introduction

Author: Dudley Andrew
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1976.
Series: A Galaxy book ; GB450
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dudley Andrew
ISBN: 0195019911 9780195019919
OCLC Number: 2312777
Notes: Includes index.
Description: x, 278 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Part 1 : The formative tradition --
Hugo Munsterberg. Matter and means ; Form and function --
Rudolf Arnheim. Material ; The creative use of the medium ; Film form ; The purpose of film --
Sergei Eisenstein. The raw material of film ; Cinematic means : creation through montage ; Film form ; The final purpose of film --
Béla Balázs and the tradition of formalism. A summary of formative film theory ; Russian formalism ; Béla Balázs ; The raw material of film art ; The creative potential of film technique ; Cinematic shape or form ; Cinematic functions --
Part 2 : Realist film theory --
Siegfried Kracauer. Matter and means ; Compositional forms ; The purpose of cinema ; Rebuttals --
André Bazin. The raw material ; Cinematic means and form ; The function of cinema --
Part 3 : Contemporary French film theory --
Jean Mitry. The raw material ; Creative potential in film ; The form and purpose of cinema --
Christian Metz and the semiology of the cinema. The raw material ; The means of signification in cinema ; The forms and possibilities of film ; Semiology and the purposes of film --
The challenge of phenomenology : Amédée Ayfre and Henri Agel.
Series Title: A Galaxy book ; GB450
Responsibility: J. Dudley Andrew.
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