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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]
Film theory seeks to systematize film as a medium. It may use Critical theory, Formalism, Marxism, philosophy of language, or Lacanian psychoanalysis, while film criticism analyzes and examines a specific film (though larger generalizations can still be deduced from criticism).
Formalist film theory is an approach to film theory that is focused on the formal or technical elements of a film: i.e., the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of color, shot composition, and editing. This approach was proposed by Hugo Münsterberg, Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, and Béla Balázs. [1]
The Major Film Theories. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. André Bazin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-19-502165-7; Kenji Mizoguchi: A Guide to References and Resources with Paul Andrew. G.K. Hall & Co., 1981. Concepts in Film Theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Film in the Aura of Art.
François Truffaut dedicated The 400 Blows to Bazin, who died one day after shooting began on the film. [16] Richard Linklater's film Waking Life features a discussion between filmmaker Caveh Zahedi and poet David Jewell regarding some of Bazin's film theories. There is an emphasis on Bazin's Christianity and the belief that every shot is a ...
Siegfried Kracauer (/ ˈ k r æ k aʊ. ər /; German: [ˈkʁakaʊ̯ɐ]; February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist. He has sometimes been associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He is notable for arguing that realism is the most important function of ...
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 ...
Todd McGowan (born 1967) is an American film scholar, philosopher, and professor of English at the University of Vermont where he teaches film and cultural theory. He works on Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersection of these lines of thought with the cinema. [1]