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Toward a New Film Aesthetic

Paperback • 2008 • English

Toward a New Film Aesthetic

By Bruce Isaacs

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About the book

Film and theory have always gone hand in hand. In many ways, the professional academic study of cinema grew out of the revolutionary surges in literary and cultural theory in Europe. Since the 1970s, film theory has predominantly been a lens through which to wage philosophical and cultural war (in increasingly abstract terms), and cinema was in the right place at the right time. "Toward a New Film Aesthetic" argues that such an approach to film studies ultimately debilitates the study of film.Ho...Show more

Film history, theory or criticism
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9780826428714

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Toward a New Film Aesthetic

Format

Paperback

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