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Title: Béla Balázs and the Eye of the Microscope Authors: ID Polonyi, Eszter, University of Nova Gorica (Author) Files: This document has no files that are freely available to the public. This document may have a physical copy in the library of the organization, check the status via COBISS.  Language: English Work type: Not categorized Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article Organization: UNG - University of Nova Gorica Abstract: This study explores the significance of the cinematic close-up to one of the earliest theories of film, produced by Béla Balázs, on the basis of a widespread technique of microscopy in the life sciences, notably in the work of his brother Evin Bauer, a theorist of microbiology. Balázs imagines that silent film records life in its immanence and spontaneity by virtue of what he calls the “physiognomic” nature of its signs. Rather than generating signs that must be passed through an alphabetic cipher, as had been required under the regime of the written or literary, Balázs presents film as liberating our access to the flow of optical data. Interestingly, however, Balázs retains the need otherwise characteristic of scientific analysis for dividing up the image into semiotic units, what he describes as “atomization.” He insists on returning the real to a symbolic order and making film into a language. Keywords: film history, media studies, science and technology studies, Weimar cinema, media archaeology Publication version: Version of Record Year of publishing: 2012 Number of pages: 37 Numbering: Fall PID: 20.500.12556/RUNG-5980  COBISS.SI-ID: 42059523  NUK URN: URN:SI:UNG:REP:PEFAPGWH Publication date in RUNG: 10.12.2020 Views: 3968 Downloads: 0 Metadata:    Cite this work Plain text BibTeX EndNote XML EndNote/Refer RIS ABNT ACM Ref AMA APA Chicago 17th Author-Date Harvard IEEE ISO 690 MLA Vancouver : Copy citation

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Title:	Apertura
Publisher:	Pompeji Foundation
Year of publishing:	2012
ISSN:	1787-7245

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