Cinematic Realism: Lukas, Kracauer and Theories of the Filmic Real

ISBN-13: 9781474441353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str.

Ian Aitken

Opis

The 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 Lukacs and Siegfried Kracauer, Cinematic Realism is a comprehensive exploration of cinematic realist theory.

Spis treści

Introduction: Representation, perception, and cinematic realism

Chapter 1: Bergson, the image, and time

Chapter 2: Introduction to Lukács; essence, phenomena and temporality

Chapter 3: ‘On the Phenomenology of the Creative Process’ (Lukács, 1914)

Chapter 4: ‘Thoughts towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema’ (Lukács, 1913)

Chapter 5: The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Lukács, 1963)

Chapter 6: Husserl, epoch?, and Lebenswelt

Chapter 7: Introduction to Kracauer; abstraction, redemption and modernity

Chapter 8: ‘Photography’ (Kracauer, 1927)

Chapter 9: ‘Introduction: Photography’ and ‘Basic Concepts’, from Theory of Film (Kracauer, 1960)

Chapter 10: ‘The Historical Approach’, and ‘The Historian’s Journey’, from History: The Last Things Before the Last (Kracauer, 1968)

Bibliography

Index