Cinematic realism : Lukács, Kracauer and theories of the filmic real /

Aitken, Ian,

Cinematic realism : Lukács, Kracauer and theories of the filmic real / Ian Aitken. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

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.

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Lukács, György, 1885-1971.
Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966.
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.


Realism in motion pictures.

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