French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style (December 1974)

Record Details:

Title:
French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style
Date:
December 1974
Publisher:
University of Iowa
Volume:
French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style (Dissertation, 1974)
Leaf #:
000108
Language:
English
Collection:
Global Cinema
Format:
dissertations
Contributor:
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Doctoral dissertation entitled, "French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style," by film scholar David Bordwell. Submitted to the University of Iowa in 1974. Document is scanned from the David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson papers, archived at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
Date Added:
May 23, 2024
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95 "l'interprétation de la nature par l'intelligence et la Sensibilité humaines au moyen de techniques spéciales."4 In such a view, the transforming power of the artist's imagination becomes central, as Paul Ramain suggests in seeing art as "renforcée par un tempérament: celui du fabriquant (peintre, poéte, musicien, cinéaste)."2 Canudo points out that in painting the graphic design is harmonized by a principle unique to the painter. © Expression is explicitly noted as the operative concept in artistic creation, as when Canudo praises the expressiveness of American cinema? and Ramain calls art "l'expression vivante idealisée."8 Although art is not equipped to copy reality faithfully and yield discursive knowledge, it does yield a feelingful truty. "Au cinéma," writes Canudo, "ainsi que dans les domaines de l'esprit, l'art consiste 4 suggérer des émotions, et non.a4 rélater des faits. .. . Seuls quelques €cranistes ont compris que la vérité cinématographique doit correspondre 4 la vérité littéraire, la vérité picturale."9 Epstein likewise praises the nondiscursive component of cinema: "Bien mieux qu'une idéGe, c'est un sentiment que le ciné apporte au monde."!9 Canudo's mention of "suggestion" hints that Impres sionist film theory's own variant of the art-as-expression y