Un alfabet al filmului
An Alphabet of the Cinema
Author(s): Peter WollenSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: tragedy – art form; Joyce Wieland; Aristotle; film – art; Aristotelian theatre; epic theatre; first World War; Weimar republic; Hitler; Hiroshima; mon amour; Holocaust; Bambi Disney; drive-in cinema;
Summary/Abstract: From Aristotle, the first art theoretician, and the love for cinema – as an illness, a vice, or, on the contrary, the desire to contemplate the world with the eyes of a child –, to Serge Daney – the film critic and chief editor of “Cahiers du Cinema” –, the dance and Lumière, to Citizen Kane, film festivals, Eisenstein and Kurosawa, to voyeurism or Zorns Lemma, Wollen’s essay comments on the most varied aspects of the film as art, as cultural phenomenon, ad as an industry.
Journal: Lettre Internationale - Ediţia română
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: 63
- Page Range: 59-66
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Romanian