Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Jean Epstein

Jean Epstein, and his argument that there is ‘no real present… it is an uneasy convention.  In the flow of time there is an exception to time’; ‘cinema’ he continues ‘is the only art capable of depicting this present as it is’(1927:412) Jean Epstein, “art of incidence” in French film theory and criticism.

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