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Aug 19, 2021 · Balázs answers these questions affirmatively, reviewing various cinematic structures—the close-up, variable framing (or montage), dissolves, fades, etc.—and selected film genres, showing the ways in which they exemplify or fail to exemplify artistic properties in a manner that is medium specific.
students and teachers of film studies and other persons interested in cinema with a useful reference book on key theoretical terms and, where appropriate, the various debates surrounding them. The glossary also gives historical overviews of key genres, film theory and film movements. Naturally, not ‘everything’ is covered by these entries. In
- Film as An Art and The Humanistic Tradition
- Humanistic Inquiry and Political Signification
- The Study of Film and Poststructuralism
- Further Reading
The rise of film studies within the university has typically sought to justify itself less on the grounds of film as a commodity to be consumed with the guidance of critics and reviewers and more on the grounds of film as an art form or cultural object to be understood for its formal qualities and social implications. Film studies took root in the ...
These types of film studies held sway during the transitional period during which film became accepted as a disciplinary focus and a departmental entity within the university. Even at this time, during the 1960s and 1970s, the field was not as homogenous as this account so far implies. The question of "What is cinema?" also took a turn toward the p...
By the 1980s poststructural theory and criticism had begun to adopt a new set of guiding assumptions. The new characteristics ascribed to cinema were three: (1) the social impact of films on specific viewers matters more than the general qualities of film as art; (2) art is not essentially transcendent but always tied to a social and historical con...
Bazin, André. What Is Cinema?, 2 vols. Translated and edited by Hugh Gray. Berkeley: University of CaliforniaPress, 2005. Bobo, Jacqueline. Black Women as Cultural Readers. New York: Columbia UniversityPress, 1995. Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Form. Translated by Jay Leyda. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1977. Feng, Peter X. Screening Asian Am...
Jan 25, 2006 · Ranging from Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan to Quentin Tarantino, and from auteur theory to the Hollywood Blockbuster, Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts has firmly established itself as the essential guide for anyone interested in film.
- Susan Hayward
- 2006
May 1, 2010 · Dating from 1924 and 1930 respectively, The Visible Man and The Spirit of Film had a decisive influence on such major Russian filmmakers as Vsevolod Pudovkin and Sergei Eisenstein, and were among the first studies to examine filmic syntax, grammar, and editorial structure.
- Béla Balázs
- May 01, 2010
Aug 1, 2020 · A collection consisting of all the works published in Cinema Journal (from its inception in 1961 until 2016), Wide Angle (through the whole of its existence), Screen (from 1969 to 1984), and Movie (from 1962 to 2000) might reasonably be seen as representative of the work of film studies generally.
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This book introduces the thought of Theodor Adorno into film studies to repair the schism that characterizes the field, as historical and cultural modes of analysis displace theoretical and philosophical ones.
