The Nature of Film - Film Hall

Author: Kracauer
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Siegfried Kracauer is widely recognized as one of the most representative film theorists of Western realism. The Nature of Film is his most influential work. In the book, he establishes a complete and rigorous film theory system: starting from the fundamental proposition that film is a "reduction of material reality," he elucidates that the entire function of film is to record and reveal the world around us, rather than to tell fictional stories. His conclusion is that only by taking the camera into real life to discover and shoot those typical accidental worlds can one produce films that truly embody the nature of film.