Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory : : ‹i›Visible Man‹/i› and ‹i›The Spirit of Film‹/i› / / ed. by Rodney Livingstone, Béla Balázs, Erica Carter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Balázs, Béla,; Carter, Erica,
• HerausgeberIn: Balázs, Béla,; Carter, Erica,; Livingstone, Rodney,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Film Europa ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)

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analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution – alongside such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin – to critical debate on film in the ‘golden age’ of the Weimar silents.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON TRANSLATION, GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- VISIBLE MAN or the Culture of Film -- THREE ADDRESSES BY WAY OF A PREFACE -- VISIBLE MAN -- SKETCHES FOR A THEORY OF FILM -- TWO PORTRAITS -- 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 -- THE SOUND FILM -- IDEOLOGICAL REMARKS -- APPENDIX: REVIEWS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX