Film Theory & Analysis regarding Siegfried Kracauer

Film Theory & Analysis regarding Siegfried Kracauer
This assignment requires you to assess a work of realist film theory and then apply its observations to a relevant film.

The theoretical text is the first section of Siegfried Kracauer’s Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality, available at this link: http://archive.org/details/theoryoffilmrede00krac

You should consider the following questions when reading Kracauer’s theory:

1) How would you describe the ontology, epistemology, and aesthetics of his theory? What arguments does Kracauer put forward to justify his positions regarding film’s essence, the specatator’s response, and the preferred techniques of the medium?
2) How does this theory compare to Bazin’s realist film theory?

After you have elucidated Kracauer’s text, identifying its key claims, you will need to choose one of the following films:

The Little Foxes (U.S.,1941)
The Magnificent Ambersons (U.S., 1942)
Germany, Year Zero (Italy, 1948)
Umberto D (Italy, 1952)
Pather Panchali (India, 1955)

Analyse the film chosen in terms of how it seems to embody central tenets of Kracauer’s theory. Be sure to provide an extended analysis of at least one key scene as you relate this film to Kracauer’s theory.

 
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