Cinematic Realism
Douban
Lukács, Kracauer and Theories of the Filmic Real
Ian Aitken
overview
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 Lukács and Siegfried Kracauer, Cinematic Realism is a comprehensive exploration of cinematic realist theory.
contents
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, epochē, 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