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1. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullBéla Balázs: a Gestalt theory of film - Taylor & Francis Online

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   Apr 4, 2016 · Discussing the major concepts on which Balázs’s film theory is built, the article explores the poetic Gestalt and symbolic meaning of film, the interplay of close-up, montage and conjecture. Following the development of the theory from Visible Man (1924) to The Spirit of Film (1930), the article argues for the possibility of a semiotic ...

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2. forward.com › schmooze › 128602The Pioneering Film Theory of Béla Balázs – The Forward

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   Jun 7, 2010 · The Hungarian poet Béla Balázs (1884–1949), born Herbert Bauer to a German Jewish family in Szeged, is best remembered for his libretto to Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle and the scenario...

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   Mar 1, 2007 · The extract published here derives from a first full translation of Visible Man (Berghahn, forthcoming). In this ninety-page treatise, Balázs stakes a claim for film as an art that may restore to modernity the lost expressive capacities of the visual body.

4. read.dukeupress.edu › new-german-critique › articleThe Social Body of Béla Balázs - Duke University Press

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   Nov 1, 2020 · Focusing on the interwar writings of the film journalist and theorist Béla Balázs, this article argues for an understanding of Balázs’s film aesthetics as grounded in a popular politics of the body.

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5. academic.oup.com › book › 3990919 Béla Balázs: The Face of Cinema - Oxford Academic

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   Aug 19, 2021 · Abstract. This chapter examines wo of Balász’s early film theory books and situates him in the context of classical film theory, while arguing that he is committed to a version of the expression theory of art. Keywords: Belázs, the face, expression, theory of art, silent cinema, close-up. Subject. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art.

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Béla_BalázsBéla Balázs - Wikipedia

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   Béla Balázs (Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒlaːʒ]; 4 August 1884 – 17 May 1949), born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage. He was a proponent of formalist film theory.

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   What did Béla Balázs do?

   • Béla Balázs's two works on silent and early sound cinema, Visible Man/Der sichtbare Mensch (1924) and The Spirit of Film/Der Geist des Films (1930), were acknowledged by such contemporaries as Siegfried Kracauer and Rudolf Arnheim as seminal contributions to the ‘dramaturgy’ of early film.

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   What does Balázs say about the universal body?

   • It should be noted that Balázs explicitly names the universal body as white, European and male, and indeed celebrates film's capacity to create the ‘unique, shared psyche of the … white race’: see Balázs, Der sichtbare Mensch, p. 22..

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   Why did Balázs change his theory?

   • He expected a new visual culture to emerge from the silent movie. Consequently, Balázs had to reconsider his theory when sound came in and enriched the medium’s capacity to convey information. Another reason to alter his conception was Balázs’s struggle with Eisenstein.

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   Is Balász a classical film theory?

   • This chapter examines wo of Balász’s early film theory books and situates him in the context of classical film theory, while arguing that he is committed to a version of the expression theory of art. Philosophy and the Moving Image. Noël Carroll, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190683306.003.0019

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   How did Balázs influence film theory after he died?

   • In the end, Balázs imlicitly derives at a diagrammatic understanding of the moving image and its conjectural reception. This understanding – together with Balázs’s concern for cinema’s affective potential – inspired film theory after his death, especially in France. 1. See the first chapter ‘The Medium is the Message’, in Understanding Media.

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   Why did Balázs rethink his theory?

   • In the beginning, Balázs was attracted by the spiritual dimension of the new art. He expected a new visual culture to emerge from the silent movie. Consequently, Balázs had to reconsider his theory when sound came in and enriched the medium’s capacity to convey information.

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8. www.researchgate.net › publication › 31397875_BelaBela Balazs, Visible Man, or the Culture of Film (1924)

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   Mar 1, 2007 · Béla Balázs's two works on silent and early sound cinema, Visible Man/Der sichtbare Mensch (1924) and The Spirit of Film/Der Geist des Films (1930), were acknowledged by such contemporaries as...