The social body of Béla Balázs

Erica Carter

doi:10.1215/0094033X-8607535

The social body of Béla Balázs

Erica Carter^*

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King's College London

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Focusing on the interwar writings of film journalist and theorist Béla Balázs, this essay argues for an understanding of Balázs’s film aesthetics as grounded in a popular politics of the body. Balázs understood film as a medium in which experiences of image, sound, expressive movement and gesture shape human subjectivities within a newly mediatized social realm. The essay explores Balázs’s consequent plea for a film politics of popular embodiment, and asks what a survey of Balázs’s writings as both critic and theorist tell us about the political valences of his film theory now.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7-20
Number of pages	14
Journal	NEW GERMAN CRITIQUE
Volume	141
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8607535 https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8607535
Publication status	Published - Nov 2020

Keywords

Balázs
film theory
body
Marxism
close-up
mass

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