Lukácsian film theory and cinema : a study of Georg Lukács' writing on film, 1913-1971
Aitken, IanAuthor
Manchester : Manchester University Press,
2012.
This volume explores Georg Lukács' writings on film. The Hungarian Marxist critic was primarily known as a literary theorist, but he also wrote extensively on the cinema. These writings have remained little known in the English speaking world because the majority of them have never actually been translated - until now.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This volume explores Georg Lukács' writings on film. The Hungarian Marxist critic was primarily known as a literary theorist, but he also wrote extensively on the cinema. These writings have remained little known in the English speaking world because the majority of them have never actually been translated - until now.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
1. The early aesthetic and 'Thoughts Towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema' -- 2. Narrate or describe? Lukács' literary 'typology' -- 3. Lukács' late aesthetic and film theory: The Specificity of the Aesthetic -- 4. Socialist humanism and Toward the Ontology of Social Being -- 5. The film journal interviews and other writings -- 6. Conclusions -- 7. 'Thoughts Towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema' -- 8. 'Film' -- 9. 'On Aesthetic Issues of the Cinema' -- 10. 'Blue Devil or Yellow Devil?' -- 11. 'Cultural Manipulation and the Tasks of Critics' -- 12. 'Film, Ideology and the Cult of Personality' -- 13. 'Technique, Content, and Problems of Language' -- 14. 'Expression of Thought in Film' -- 15. 'Revolution and Psychology of Everyday Life'.
Lukács, György, 1885-1971
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