Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory: Visible Man and the Spirit of Film - Paperback
Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory: Visible Man and the Spirit of Film - Paperback
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by Béla Balázs (Author), Erica Carter (Author), Rodney Livingstone (Author)
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analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution - alongside such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin - to critical debate on film in the 'golden age' of the Weimar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.
Author Biography
Erica Carter is Professor of German and Film at King's College, London. Her writings on film include The German Cinema Book (co-ed. Tim Bergfelder & Deniz Göktürk, 2002), and Dietrich¹s Ghosts. The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film (2004).
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