Cinematic Realism : : Lukács, Kracauer and Theories of the Filmic Real / / Ian Aitken.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Aitken, Ian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations

Assesses classical and contemporary theories of cinematic realismExplores classical and contemporary theories of cinematic realism to assess their overall key concepts and intellectual configurationsExplores classical theories of cinematic realism more deeply through an analysis of Lukacs/Bergson/time and Kracauer/Husserl/SpaceOffers some conclusions on what the central key concepts and intellectual configuration of cinematic realism are; and on what consequences flow from thisThe 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Representation, Perception and Cinematic Realism -- 1. Bergson, the Image and Time -- 2. Introduction to Lukács: Essence, Phenomena and Temporality -- 3. ‘On the Phenomenology of the Creative Process’ (Lukács 1914) -- 4. ‘Thoughts towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema’ (Lukács 1913) -- 5. The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Lukács 1963) -- 6. Husserl, Epochē and Lebenswelt -- 7. Introduction to Kracauer: Abstraction, Redemption and Modernity -- 8. ‘Photography’ (Kracauer 1927) -- 9. ‘Introduction: Photography’ and ‘Basic Concepts’, from Theory of Film (Kracauer 1960) -- 10. ‘The Historical Approach’ and ‘The Historian’s Journey’, from History: The Last Things Before the Last (Kracauer 1968) -- Bibliography -- Index