Ian AitkenLukácsian Film Theory and Cinema
A Study of Georg Lukács' Writing on Film 1913-1971
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