Béla Balázs : early film theory : Visible man and the spirit of film /
Béla Balázs was a Hungarian Jewish film theorist, author, screenwriter and film director who was at the forefront of Hungarian literary life before being forced into exile for Communist activity after 1919. His German-language theoretical essays on film date from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2010
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| Edition: | 1. pbk. ed. 2011 |
| Series: | Film Europa ;
v. 10 |
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Table of Contents:
- I. May We Come In?
- II. To Directors and Other Fellow Practitioners
- III. On Creative Enjoyment
- Visible Man
- Sketches For a Theory of Film ; The Substance of Film Type and Physiognomy ; The Play of Facial Expressions ; The Close-Up ; The Face of Things ; Nature and Naturalness ; Visual Linkage ; Supplementary Fragments ; World View
- Two Portraits ; Chaplin, the Ordinary American ; Asta Nielsen: How She Loves and How She Grows Old
- The Spirit of Film ; Seven Years ; The Productive Camera ; The Close-Up ; Set-Up Montage ; Montage Without Cutting Flight From the Story ; The Absolute Film ; Colour Film and Other Possibilities ; Sound Film Ideological Remarks