Sunday, 9 March 2014

FEATURE OF RUDOLF ARNHEIM’S THEORY OF FILM

Rudolf Arnheim was a German-born author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. In all was the best personality in film studies, best known for his landmarks book on silent cinema film art. He wrote major books on art, creativity which was known widely. He slowly and gradually became scholar and the most famous person in fields of art, history and gave tremendous contributions in the field of cinema. Later in the field of aesthetics, perception and emotion proved to be an important element in the field of film studies.
            Later on his work on visual arts brought change in films and media, and also reassessing some changes in film theories, which proved to be a help in refining the film as art and related concepts. His topics on film writings in modernism, antipathy to sound and colour in film, formation of his early ideas on films against social, political, methodology, digital media had a wide discussion. Arnheim used to believe that most productive idea comes during early twenties. And then they think on that idea and try to explore it. His idea regarding life and the world was in patterns, shapes and colours of the world. And hence he believed that to understand them in a better way, we need to explore them.  He gave lots of importance to artwork and said it’s the visual thinking and ways to express and help people understand the world and to show that the world changes according to one’s mind.
            There were certain innovations he had dreamt of which includes: special camera that films scenes in five language that to at the same time, technique of recording sound on a thread, for editing by a dress-maker or tailor, a telescope that radiated invisible ultraviolet rays you discover violations of public moral built in cinema, discovery of film bacteria that infected the audience and led to screen phobia, invention of close-up. Despite of his geographical and cultural aspects, Arnheim was a famous person in the Italian cultural during thirties. He was forced to take new escape leading to stop his passion for cinema; however his contribution was much better.
            Due to his different perspectives, he had a humanistic approach and was not opposed to scientific thought. He had a wide knowledge regarding technical innovations in film making which them broaden lots of borders to aesthetics films and there experience. He has helped the new generation of critics and directors to broaden their horizons and move beyond idealism towards realistic.


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