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