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Additional Physical Format: | Print version Aitken, Ian. Realist film theory and cinema: the nineteenth-century Lukácsian and intuitionist realist traditions Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2006 |
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Named Person: | John Grierson; Siegfried Kracauer; André Bazin; György Lukács; György Lukács; Siegfried Kracauer; John Grierson; André Bazin |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Article, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian Aitken; Manchester University Press, |
ISBN: | 9781526141743 1526141744 9781847796172 1847796176 |
OCLC Number: | 1149149900 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Notes: | Made available via: manchesterhive. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions. |
Target Audience: | Scholars and advanced students of film studies, literary studies, media studies, cultural studies and philosophy. |
Description: | 1 online resource (246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
Details: | Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.; System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended). |
Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1. From the 'true style' to the 'art-form of the bourgeoisie': the origins, characteristics, and theoretical foundation of the nineteenth-century French realist, and naturalist tradition -- 2. La Bête humaine, the evolution of French cinematic realism and naturalism 1902-38, and the influence of the nineteenth-century tradition -- 3. 'The adequate presentation of the complete human personality', Lukács and the nineteenth-century realist tradition -- 4. From the historical cinema of democratic humanism to the film Novelle: Lukácsian cinematic realism in Danton (1990) and Senso (1954) -- 5. 'And what about the spiritual life itself?', distraction, transcendence and redemption: the intuitionist realist tradition in the work of John Grierson, André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer -- 6. Transcendental illusion and the scope for realism: cinematic realism, philosophical realism and film theory -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Series Title: | Manchester Film Studies |
Responsibility: | Ian Aitken. |
Abstract:
This book suggests ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism, stressing the importance of the question of realism, both in film studies and in contemporary life. -- .
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