Film as Art

This book presents a theory of film. The greater part is an adaptation of the book originally published in 1933, long out of print but still in demand because it raises fundamental questions that the intervening years have by no means answered. Arnheim's provocative thesis is that the peculiar virtues of film as art derive from an exploitation of limitations of the medium: the absence of sound, the absence of color, the lack of three-dimensional depth. Silent-film artists made virtues of these necessities and were on their way to developing a new and distinctive art form. Mechanical advancement has led to greater realism, and a corresponding loss in artistry. The four essays which make up the rest of the book are supplementary in show more nature. The final one discusses the general aesthetic rules for the combination of different media--word, image, and sound--and leads to an evaluation of the talking picture as a medium for artistic expression.--Adapted from back cover. show less

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Arnheim defendia que o cinema alcança seu status artístico não pela imitação da realidade, mas por meio da manipulação criativa das limitações do meio (ausência de cor, profundidade, som), explorando a percepção através da psicologia Gestalt para criar novas realidades e significados. Sua teoria liga a percepção visual à cognição, afirmando que pensar e perceber são processos entrelaçados, e que o cinema, ao distorcer nossa percepção do mundo, torna-se uma forma de pensamento e conhecimento.

Se presenta la evolución de del cine como arte desde la primera época del cine mudo, hasta la segunda época con la utilización de medios mecánicos. Permite entender la evolución del cine mudo al sonoro.

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