Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0011
I. Aitken
This chapter is a close analysis of the two chapters from Kracauer’s 1968 book History: The Last Things Before the Last. The chapter covers the influence of Husserl’s concept of the Lebenswelt on Kracauer’s conception of history and explores Kracauer’s notion of ‘ante-room history. Here, Kracauer compares film and photography with historiography, and sets out a conception of non-linear historical time. The notion of the historian, and the exile, as ‘palimpsest’, is also considered. The influence of the art theorist Clement Greenberg on Kracauer’s application of notions of medium specificity to film, photography and historiography is also considered
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0006
I. Aitken
This chapter is a close analysis of the chapter entitled ‘Film’ in Lukács’s 1963 book, The Specificity of the Aesthetic. In this chapter, Lukács forwards a naturalist-impressionistic account of film that is at variance to much of his writing on literature. Lukács also relates film to the modern condition and discusses the nature of time in film. The chapter discusses some of Lukacs’s ley concepts, such as Geradesosein, Besonderheit, the photographic ‘deanthropomorphising’ basis of film, and the ‘field of objectivity’.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0008
I. Aitken
This chapter provides an analysis of the key ideas of Siegfried Kracauer, covering his key concepts of abstraction, redemption and distraction, and his account of the modern condition, the role of conceptual reason within modernity, the subordination of intuition within modernity, and the way that film may contribute to the ‘redemption of physical reality.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0010
I. Aitken
This chapter is a close analysis of the two chapters from Kracauer’s 1960 book Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality. The chapter covers Kracauer’s increasing influence by phenomenology and outlines his key notion of the ‘basic aesthetic principle’ of film and photography, the ‘cinematic approach’, and the ‘realist’ and ‘formative’ stages of the aesthetic process in both film and photography. Kracauer’s contention that film is ‘uniquely equipped to record and reveal physical reality’ is discussed.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0003
I. Aitken
This chapter introduces the thought of Georg Lukács, focussing on his ideas related to temporality, and the distinction between the essential and real life. The influence of Aristotle and Plato, particularly Platos’s ‘Theory of the Forms’, is also considered, and the chapter charts Lukács’s move from Platonism to Phenomenology, and the evolution of his key concepts of ‘soul’ and ‘form’.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0002
I. Aitken
This chapter presents an outline of the ideas of Henri Bergson, as a prelude to the later exploration of Georg Lukács in chapters 2-5 of this book. Bergson’s ideas on the image, the body and time, and film are considered, including his notion of ‘cinematographic time’ and ‘duration’. The chapter also includes a general account of the nature of temporality and discusses the influence of Einstein’s theory of relativity on notions of time.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0001
I. Aitken
The Introduction focuses upon general concepts related to cinematic realism, covering ideas related to philosophical realism, Gibson, Harré, externalism, the notion of Umwelt, and recent philosophical writings on the nature of film. The Introduction also focuses on notions of representation and presentation, phenomenology, the nature of the filmic object, and the relationship between light and the cinematic image.
{"title":"Representation, Perception and Cinematic Realism","authors":"I. Aitken","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"The Introduction focuses upon general concepts related to cinematic realism, covering ideas related to philosophical realism, Gibson, Harré, externalism, the notion of Umwelt, and recent philosophical writings on the nature of film. The Introduction also focuses on notions of representation and presentation, phenomenology, the nature of the filmic object, and the relationship between light and the cinematic image.","PeriodicalId":242576,"journal":{"name":"Cinematic Realism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130136252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0007
I. Aitken
This chapter presents an outline of the thought of Edmund Husserl, particularly Husserl’s conceptions of the Lebenswelt (or ‘lifeworld’ and Epoche, as a preluded to the following four chapters on Siegfried Kracauer. The chapter also discusses other aspects of Husserl’s theory of phenomenology, including the distinction between the perceptual lifeworld and the cultural lifeworld, and the concepts of the ‘natural attitude’, and ‘Eidos’
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0005
I. Aitken
This chapter is a close analysis of Lukács’ 1913 paper ‘Thoughts towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema’, in Which Lukács writes about the relation between film and the theatre. The paper forms part of the ‘Kino Debate’, then taking place in Germany, over the future potential of the cinema as a vehicle for liberation and of aesthetic value. The paper relates film to the body and intuition, in contrast to the theatre, which is regarded as a vehicle for the high intellect. In this paper, Lukacs introduces the notion of the ‘cinema of the fantastic’ and opposes this to the hegemony of logic within modernity. Key notions such as the ‘great moment’ and the ‘present moment’, and the banality of ‘ordinary life’, and the concept of Stimmung, are also considered.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441346.003.0004
I. Aitken
This chapter is a close analysis of Lukács’s 1914 paper ‘On the Phenomenology of the Creative Process’, in which Lukács moves on from his earlier work Soul and Form to focus on the phenomenology of artistic creation. In this paper Lukács also moves away from the Platonist emphasis that pervaded Soul and Form. The paper focuses on the creative process, the ‘ethical sphere’ and the ‘aesthetic sphere’.
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