Aitken Lukácsian film theory and cinema

A study of Georg Lukács' writing on film 1913–1971
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2964-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Students and lecturers in film studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aitken, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. The early aesthetic and ‘Thoughts Towards an Aesthetic
for the Cinema’ (‘Gedanken zu einer Ästhetic des Kino’)
2. Narrate or Describe? Lukács’ literary ‘typology’
3. Lukács’ late aesthetic and film theory: The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen)
4. The late writings on film, socialist humanism, and Toward the Ontology of Social Being (Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftslichen Seins)
5. Lukácsian aesthetic and cinematic realism
6. The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1963)
7. Thoughts Towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema
8. Film
9. Blue Devil or Yellow Devil?
10. Cultural Manipulation and the Role of Critics
11. Film, Ideology and the Cult of Personality
12. Technique, Content, and the Problem of Language
13. The Expression of Thought in the Cinema
14 Revolution, and the Psychology of Everyday Life
Conclusions
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Aitken Ian:
Ian Aitken is Associate Professor in Film Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, and Senior Research Fellow in Film Studies at De Monfort UniversityIan Aitken is Professor of Film Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University