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Béla Balázs ( Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒlaːʒ]; 4 August 1884 – 17 May 1949), born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage. He was a proponent of formalist film theory .
Béla Balázs was a Hungarian writer, Symbolist poet, and influential film theoretician. Balázs’s theoretical work Halálesztétika (“The Aesthetics of Death”) was published in 1906; his first drama, Doktor Szélpál Margit, was performed by the Hungarian National Theatre in 1909.
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May 1, 2014 · Herbert Bauer, known to the world as Béla Balázs (1894–1949), led the sort of life about which contemporary intellectuals might fantasize. He knew everyone and he did everything. Born in Hungary, he included György Lukács, Karl Mannheim, Arnold Hauser, Béla Bartók, and Zoltán Kodály in his circle, among others.
- Noël Carroll
- 2014
Béla Balázs (born Herbert Béla Bauer, 4 August 1884 – 17 May 1949) was a film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage. He was a proponent of formalist film theory.
Apr 4, 2016 · Discussing the major concepts on which Balázs’s film theory is built, the article explores the poetic Gestalt and symbolic meaning of film, the interplay of close-up, montage and conjecture. Following the development of the theory from Visible Man (1924) to The Spirit of Film (1930), the article argues for the possibility of a ...
- Matthias Bauer
- 2016
The Hungarian-born Béla Balázs was an integral part of the film and media culture of the 1920s and 1930s. He is widely recognized as the author of three books of film theory.
Aug 19, 2021 · This chapter examines wo of Balász’s early film theory books and situates him in the context of classical film theory, while arguing that he is committed to a version of the expression theory of art. Keywords: Belázs, the face, expression, theory of art, silent cinema, close-up. Subject.
