Aitken Realist film theory and cinema

The nineteenth-century Lukácsian and intuitionist realist traditions
25. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4174-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book suggests ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism, stressing the importance of the question of realism, both in film studies and in contemporary life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aitken, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Dedication
Introduction

1. From the `true style’ to the art form of the bourgeoisie: The origins, characteristics and theoretical foundation of the nineteenth century French realist and naturalist tradition
2. La Bête humaine, the evolution of French cinematic realism and naturalism 1902-1938, and the influence of the nineteenth century tradition
3.`The adequate presentation of the complete human personality’, Lukács, the intensive totality and the nineteenth century realist tradition
4. From the historical cinema of democratic humanism to the film Novelle: Lukácsian cinematic realism in Danton (1990), and Senso (1954)
5. `And what about the spiritual life itself’, distraction, modernity and redemption: The intuitionist realist tradition in the work of John Grierson, André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer

6. Transcendental illusion and scope for realism: Cinematic realism, philosophical realism and film theory

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 Associate Professor in Film Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, and Senior Research Fellow in Film Studies at De Monfort University