7 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
David Bordwell is an American film scholar whose formalist approach to narrative and style became the dominant framework in academic film studies.
Sergei Eisenstein's theory that film meaning is produced not within individual shots but in the collision between shots — montage as intellectual argument through visual juxtaposition.
Jon Boorstin is an American film producer and author whose book 'The Hollywood Eye' (1990) analyzed the visceral, voyeuristic, and vicarious responses films produce in audiences.
American philosopher at the University of Chicago who is one of the leading interpreters of Hegel and Nietzsche — and who extended Hegelian analysis to film and literature — making the German idealist tradition accessible to contemporary humanists.
Sergei Eisenstein was a Soviet filmmaker and theorist whose films — 'Battleship Potemkin', 'October', 'Ivan the Terrible' — and theoretical writings on montage established the intellectual foundation of film editing as an art form.
A 1990 book by Jon Boorstin analyzing how films engage three distinct audience pleasure systems — vicarious identification, voyeuristic observation, and visceral body sensation.
Étienne Souriau was a French philosopher of aesthetics who developed systematic theories of the arts including early work on filmic ontology.