Béla Balázs' early film theory

Visible man and The spirit of film

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Author

Béla Balázs

Contributions

Carter, Erica. - Contributor
Balázs, Béla, 1884-1949. - Contributor

Publication

2010 - Berghahn Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

64,500 words, Guess

Page Count

258 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL23954190M
ISBN-139781845456603
OCLC Control Number326626793
OCLC Control Numberbelabalazsearlyf0000bala
Library of Congress Control Number2009047674

Classifications

DDC791.43
LCCPN1994 .B27113 2010

Description

"Béla Balázs's two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies audience in the English-speaking world. Balázs's detailed analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution - alongside such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin - to critical debate on film in the 'golden age' of the Weimar silents. 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, the period of his early exile in Vienna and Berlin."--pub. desc.