Film Aesthetics and Cultural Studies - Characteristics of Film Thinking and the Aesthetic Redemptive Function

Author: Tian Zhaoyao
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Chinese film art is lagging behind advanced film countries in the world, and its film art theory is correspondingly weak. However, it does have its own historical and logical starting points. In the 1930s, China introduced the works of Soviet scholars such as Eisenstein, particularly Pudovkin's film theory, as well as the theories of German scholars like Arnheim and the film views of some scholars from other European countries and Japan. These "introductions" of foreign film theories expanded the scope of Chinese film theory research. This book provides an in-depth analysis of Chinese and foreign film art theories, discussing film aesthetics and cultural studies, the characteristics of film thinking, and its aesthetic redemptive role. The main contents include: the basic entities of film thinking, formalism in film, the documentary aesthetics of film, the camera eye, the threat posed by the Western rationalization process to poetic thinking and its consequences, and the loss and reconstruction of images in the history of communication media. This book consists of nine chapters, including: an overview of the research background, the myth of film, the basic entities of film thinking, the documentary aesthetics of film, etc.