Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory

Béla Balázs: Early Film TheoryBla Balzss 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. Balzss detailed analyses of the close up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film

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