Lukacsian Film Theory and Cinema

Introduction 1. The early aesthetic and 'Thoughts Towards an Aesthetic for the Cinema' ('Gedanken zu einer Ästhetic des Kino') 2. Narrate or Describe? Lukács' literary 'typology' 3. Lukács' late aesthetic and film theory: The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen) 4. The late writings on film, socialist humanism, and Toward the Ontology of Social Being (Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftslichen Seins) 5. Lukácsian aesthetic and cinematic realism 6. The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1963) 7. Thoughts Towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema 8. Film 9. Blue Devil or Yellow Devil? 10. Cultural Manipulation and the Role of Critics 11. Film, Ideology and the Cult of Personality 12. Technique, Content, and the Problem of Language 13. The Expression of Thought in the Cinema 14 Revolution, and the Psychology of Everyday Life Conclusions Bibliography