Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
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