Realist Film Theory and Cinema : The Nineteenth-Century LukaCsian and Intuitionist Realist Traditions

Comprehensive and unique in covering all major realist film theorists including Grierson, Kracauer, Bazin and Lukacs, and in linking these 20th-century traditions to themes and characteristics of 19th-century realism in literature and painting The first book to attempt a rigorous and systematic application of realist film theory to the analysis of particular films The first book to attempt a comparative analysis of the theories of Grierson, Bazin and Kracauer, and also throws new light on Lukacs theory of realism, making a clear and novel distinction between his literary and cinematic theories of realism Attempts to establish a new paradigm of film theory around realism, and challenges some of the major contemporary positions in the field Proposes a new approach to film studies based on the development of a new category of realist film research