Chapter 3 Phenomenology, Theology and ‘Physical Reality’: The Film Theory Realism of Siegfried Kracauer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1 Displaced Vision: The Politics of Realism in Kracauer and Kluge 41
5. Chapter 2 The Rhetoric of Madness in Realist Film Theory 53
6. Chapter 3 Phenomenology, Theology and ‘Physical Reality’: The Film Theory Realism of Siegfried Kracauer 67
7. Chapter 4 ‘Montage, My Fine Care’: Realism, Surrealism and Postmodernism after Bazin 81
8. Chapter 5 Multiple Indexicality and Multiple Realism in André Bazin 94
9. Chapter 6 André Bazin, or the Ambiguity of Reality 110
10. Chapter 7 Realism is to Think Historically: Overlapping Elements in Lukácsian and Brechtian Theories of Realism 123
11. Chapter 8 The Moving-image Redemption of Orality and Lukács’s Early Writing on the Cinema 139
12. Chapter 9 The ‘Naturalist’ Treatment of Film in The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Georg Lukács, 1963) and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1962; Caspar Wrede, 1970) 156
13. Chapter 10 The Documentary Version of Film History 172
14. Chapter 11 The Grierson Testament, 1969–71 187
15. Chapter 12 John Grierson: From the Poster Movement to the Informational State 203
16. Contributors 219
17. Index 222