The Essence of Cinema: Is Film Art? (945 words, 3 pages)
Classical film theory struggles with the question Is film art? Through comparing film to varying art forms, such as painting, theater, music, and photography, classical film theorists, like Rudolf Arnheim, Bla Balzs, Jean Epstein, and Sergei Eisenstein, attempt to define the essence of cinema. Their two central missions are to ...
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