{"product_id":"bela-balazs-early-film-theory","title":"Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\tBéla Balázs’s two works, \u003ci\u003eVisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1924) and \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit of Film\u003c\/i\u003e (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies audience in the English-speaking world. Balázs’s detailed analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution – alongside such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin – to critical debate on film in the ‘golden age’ of the Weimar silents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283503202648,"sku":"9780857453556","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780857453556_65a90d4b-ce18-4524-8fb1-97257eae6a9c.jpg?v=1777963523","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bela-balazs-early-film-theory","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}