Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

1. Didacticism and Intuition in Russian Formalism and Weimar Film Theory
2. Determinism and Symbolism in the Film Theory of Eisenstein
3. Aestheticism and Engagement in Weimar Cinematic Modernism and Soviet Montage Cinema
4. Into the Realm of the Wondrous: French Cinematic Impressionism
5. The World Well Lost: From Structuralism to Relativism
6. From Political Modernism to Postmodernism
7. The Redemption of Physical Reality: Theories of Realism in Grierson, Kracauer, Bazin, and Lukács
8. Late European Cinema and Realism
9. Post-war Italian and Spanish Realist Cinema

Conclusions

Select Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Examines major film theories and movements of European cinema within the context of intellectual history.

About the Author

Ian Aitken is a Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University. He is author of The Documentary Film Movement and The Cinema of Alberto Cavalcanti.