Cinematic Realism

Lukács, Kracauer and Theories of the Filmic Real

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Ian Aitken, Hong Kong Baptist University) Aitken, Ian (Professor of Film Studies

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-25
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt496 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474441353

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Ian Aitken was a chair professor, and is now an Emeritus Professor, affiliated to Hong Kong Baptist University. His areas of expertise lie in British documentary film studies, the British official film in South-East Asia, and theories of cinematic realism. His most recent book publications include Cinematic Realism (2020), The Major Realist Film Theorists (ed.), The British Official Film in South-East Asia (2016), and The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia (2016).

Introduction: Representation, perception, and cinematic realismChapter 1: Bergson, the image, and timeChapter 2: Introduction to Lukács; essence, phenomena and temporalityChapter 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, epochē, and LebensweltChapter 7: Introduction to Kracauer; abstraction, redemption and modernityChapter 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)BibliographyIndex

For decades Ian Aitken has been thinking deeply about cinematic realism, working tirelessly to interrogate the fundamental premises and limitations of previous theories of representation and reality. This latest book presents the apogee of his thinking, revealing via a series of intense readings of Lukács and Kracauer the implicit philosophical assumptions, methods, and problems behind their theoretical systems.