Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition

by Malcolm Turvey

Book Overview

The film theories of Jean Epstein, Dziga Vertov, Bela Balazs, and Siegfried Kracauer have long been studied separately from each other. In Doubting Vision, film scholar Malcolm Turvey argues that their work constitutes a distinct, hitherto neglected tradition, which he calls revelationism, and which differs in important ways from modernism and realism. For these four theorists and filmmakers, the cinema is an art of mass enlightenment because it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195320980
• ISBN13: 9780195320985
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"