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Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; [1] and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. [2]
David Jay Bordwell (/ ˈ b ɔːr d w əl /; July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian. [1] After receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1973, he wrote more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film (1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1988), Making Meaning (1989), and On the History of Film ...
Realism was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century. 19th-century realism is closely connected to the development of modern drama, which "is usually said to have begun in the early 1870s" with the "middle-period" work of the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen ...
In 1960, he released Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality, which argued that realism is the most important function of cinema. In the last years of his life Kracauer worked as a sociologist for different institutes, amongst them in New York as a director of research for applied social sciences at Columbia University. He died there ...
The meaning of a film, plus the way the viewing subject is constructed and the mechanics of the actual process and production of making the film affect the representation of the subject. This effect is ideological because it is a reproduced reality and the cinematic experience affects the viewer on a deep level.
William Rothman (photo by Kitty Morgan) William Rothman (born June 25, 1944) is an American film theorist and critic. Since receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1974, he has authored numerous books, including Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze (1982), The “I” of the Camera: Essays in Film Criticism, History and Aesthetic (1988), and Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the ...
André Bazin (French:; 18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.He started to write about movies in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951 alongside Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.
Socialist Realism was the official doctrine of art produced in the Soviet Union, through which the emerging medium of film took prominence. The doctrine mandated an idealized depiction of society under socialism , with Soviet film of the era conforming to standards approved by the First Congress of Soviet Writers.