The Cinema of Anecdote and the Cinema of Image

• Authors: Gizycki M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Author makes a reflection on the phenomenon of two different tendencies in the history of cinema - realistic one, which derives from films of Lumiere brothers, and visionary or creational one, the protoplast of which some consider Georges Mélies. The author cites words of Stefan Themerson, which in 1937 was arguing, that the dichotomy was visible even in the prehistory of the cinema, because we can regard camera obscura as an anticipation of the realistic tendency, and the laterna magica - as an anticipation of creational one. This primal dualism - as he argues - is also very visible in the whole history of cinema, i.a. in the distinction between two types of avant-gardes: 'aesthetic' one, associated in terms of style with works of Fernand Léger or Man Ray, and 'political' one, typical for the realm of soviet cinema (Sergei Eisenstein or Dziga Vertov).The author claims, that the dualism - or, in other words, the differentiation between cinema with prevailing intellectual elements and emphasizing the substance, and cinema with prevailing sensual elements and emphasizing the form - can be found in many other types of film (e.g. fictional film, cartoons) and allows us to define two categories usually opposite in this discourse: the cinema of anecdote and the cinema of image.

Keywords

EN

LUMIERE AUGUSTE; LUMIERE LOUIS; MÉLIES GEORGE

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 64
• Pages: 211-214
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gizycki M.

• M. Gizycki, Rhode Island School of Design, 2 College Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA059526