Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory: Visible Man and the Spirit of Film

by Béla Balázs

Book Overview

B la Bal zs's two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies audience in the English-speaking world. Bal zs's detailed analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857453556
• ISBN13: 9780857453556
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"