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The Promise of Collective Authorship: Bela Balazs’s Move to the Soviet Union (1931-1946)
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Abstract: Balazs belongs to a generation of Central and Eastern European critical thinker, cultural philosopher and writer that is often credited with exporting Marxist cultural analysis to North America, but about whom very little is known to English-language scholars. The fifteen years he spent in the Soviet Union are among the most undocumented of his career, even though this was when he wrote the text that would become his most widely-cited book, Theory of the Film. This paper examines Balazs’s decision to flee to the Soviet Union from Germany in 1931. While it has long been assumed that Balazs’s decision to move East rather than West—the route otherwise taken by colleagues of his such as Siegfried Kracauer, Michael Curtiz or Rudolf Arnheim—was due to commitments of a political nature, this paper evaluates Balazs’s options from the viewpoint of the scenarist’s rising importance within competing modes of film production. Pre-constituting a film by way of a plan, sketch or model, the scenario promised different types of leverage over production to capitalist and communist systems. Conceived of as a commodity blueprint in Hollywood, the scenario appeared as it was a means of enhancing the effectiveness of production and as a tool of capital, whereas, for Balazs at least, the scenario was a source of sensory and spiritual attunement between an assemblage of humans and machines. Understood as offering vision rather than oversight, collective authorship rather than collective control, the script appeared to complement the utopian arguments driving the Soviet film industry.
Keywords: film studies, industrial design, Soviet studies, authorship
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Radical Optics: the Film-City of the 1919 Hungarian Commune
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: early studio system, Communist cultural politics, Georg Lukacs, urban planning
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Flicker: Thom Andersen Takes Muybridge to the Movies
Eszter Polonyi, 2021, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph

Keywords: film history, media studies, Eadweard Muybridge, chronophotography, North American avant-garde, found footage film, media archaeology
Published in RUNG: 12.12.2020; Views: 2666; Downloads: 0
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'The Tragedy is Anatomical': Microscopes and Faces in Jean Epstein and Béla Balázs
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: film theory, media studies, science and technology studies, silent cinema, biology
Published in RUNG: 11.12.2020; Views: 2246; Downloads: 0
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Animal-Battle Films and Political Agitation in early-1930s Cinema Theory
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: art history, media studies, Central European avant-garde art, biology, critical theory
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Béla Balázs and the Face in the Machine
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: media studies, history of film and photography, science of physiognomy
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Béla Balázs and the Bergfilm
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: film studies, Weimar cinema, Leni Riefenstahl, vitalism, media studies
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Gesture as practice of theory in Balázs and Benjamin
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: film theory, Lebensreform movement, critical theory, Weimar cinema
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Balázs, the sunday circle, and aesthetic praxisscript
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: Central European cultural politics, Georg Lukacs, Anna Lesznai, Soviet Communes, revolution, film industry, mass media
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Seeing words on the screen, Béla Balázs, "Fraeulein Else" and the emergence of the film script
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: film history, sound transition, Elizabeth Bergner, film theory, history of medicine
Published in RUNG: 11.12.2020; Views: 2236; Downloads: 0
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