Doubting Vision Film and the Revelationist Tradition

Name: Doubting Vision Film and the Revelationist Tradition
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ISBN: 9780195320985

ISBN-10: 0195320980

ISBN-13: 9780195320985

Edition: 2008

Authors: Malcolm Turvey

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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 escapes the limits of human sight and reveals the true nature of reality. Turvey provides a detailed exegesis of this tradition, pointing to its sources in Romanticism, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, modern science, and other intellectual…

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 9.02" wide x 5.98" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Malcolm Turvey is Professor of Film History at Sarah Lawrence College and an editor of October. He is the author of Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition.



Introduction



The Revelationist Tradition: Exegesis



The Revelationsit Tradition: Critique



Revelationism and Contemporary Film Theory



The Lure of Visual Skepticism Notes