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The Visible Man, or the Culture of Cinema

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The Visible Man, or the Culture of Cinema
6.99 €
The Visible Man (1924) by the Hungarian writer and poet Bela Balaz (1884–1949) was one of the first books on film theory. Believing that “cinema makes man and his world visible,” Balage – influenced by the ideas of Henri Bergson, Georg Simmel and Wilhelm Diltheus, from whom he studied in Paris and Berlin – turns to physiognomy and facial expressions, becoming a pioneer in the study of face and close-up. He enters into polemics with Kuleshov and Eisenstein to reveal the aesthetic laws of cinema, describes and analyzes its forms of expressiveness, reveals the principles that made cinema so popular. Balage examines different types of films, reveals the secrets of optical tricks, evaluates a new direction – color cinema – reveals the meaning of sound and music for films, ironically over the “happi end”. Balazha’s ideas do not belong exclusively to the past, they are constantly addressed by scientists, historians and semiotics of cinema. The influence of "The Visible Man" on theoretical thought stretches from Walter Benjamin's notion of "aura" to Christian Metz's film-semiotics and feminist theories of the view.
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