early debates in film theory Flashcards
film has often been treated as…
inferior to established art forms
photography & film could be dismissed because they…
merely reproduce reality
who are the 4 major writers of film as art before the 1960s?
- Sergi M. Eisenstein
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Andre Bazin
Eisenstein was a [1] who wrote about [2]
- soviet director
- montage in the late 1920s
Arnheim was a [1] who wrote [2]
- german psych prof
- Film As Art, 1933
Kracauer was a [1] who wrote [2]
- german sociology prof
- From Caligari to Hitler, 1947
Bazin was a [1] who wrote [2]
- french film magazine editor
- What Is Cinema, 1950s
Eisenstien and Arnheim are both:
formalists
formalists defended cinema by…
celebrating the differences between film and reality
Eisenstien believed that cinema was… (2)
- doing things no other art forms could
- a distinct art form in its own right
Eisenstein focused primarily on what to describe the differences between film and reality?
editing
Arnheim contested the idea that [1] by [2]
- film merely reproduces reality
- explain the choices filmmakers make
Arnheim’s writng made readers see…
the artistic complexity of things that had been taken for granted
for formalists, the best cinema…
draws attention to the filmmaker’s art
expressionism and soviet montage are both examples of…
formalism
