Literature and Cinematography

Informationen zum Autor Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky, (born Jan. 24 [Jan. 12, Old Style], 1893, St. Petersburg, Russia--died Dec. 8, 1984, Moscow), Russian literary critic and novelist. He was a major voice of Formalism, a critical school that had great influence in Russian literature in the 1920s. Klappentext In this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what art is, by implication he also quietly lays to waste the theories and people who view art as a means of representing "the real world" and a method of communication. His views of the other arts then lead him into his speculations about the art of cinema photography, new at the time that Shklovsky composed his polemic in 1923. Zusammenfassung In this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what art is, by implication he also quietly lays to waste the theories and people who view art as a means of representing "the real world" and a method of communication. His views of the other arts then lead him into his speculations about the art of cinema photography, new at the time that Shklovsky composed his polemic in 1923.

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• Authors: Irina Masinovsky, Richard Sheldon, Viktor Borisovich Shklovskii, Viktor Shklovsky, Viktor/ Masinovsky Shklovsky
• Assisted by: Richard Sheldon (Introduction), Irina Masinovsky (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2008
• EAN: 9781564784827
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-482-7
• No. of pages: 74
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 171 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Scholarly Series; Dalkey Archive Scholarly; Scholarly Series; Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Fernsehen, TV