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
what are two examples of formalism?
- Rashomon
- Citizen Kane
realists defend cinema by…
celebrating its basis in the reproduction of reality
Kracauer believed that…
cinema should embrace its ability to reproduce reality because that’s what makes it special
Kracauer wrote about…
the relationship between film and politics during the rise of the nazis
Kracauer saw expressionism as..
a cowardly retreat from confronting reality head on
Bazin believed cinema should be free from…
distortion
Bazin believed the selling point of film was its…
objective nature
bazin believed editing [1] because [2]
- results in falsehood
- it breaks shots of reality into fragments
define deep focus.
a shot in which everything was in sharp focus, no matter how far from the camera
deep focus makes what possible?
Bazin’s ideal films, made of long takes with few cuts
all four writers disdained…
conventional Hollywood films
Kracauer and Bazin are both…
realists
