The Art of Cinema

Japanese: 《映画の芸術》 - えいがのげいじゅつ
The Art of Cinema

...Around the same time, Canude, who was beginning to emphasize and prove the uniqueness of film in comparison to other arts, came to view theatricality in film, and especially the works of Film Dahl, which simply filmed plays, as cinema's enemy, and came to claim that the "ekranist," or "artist of the screen," "must transform reality into the dream of his mind and manipulate light to express the state of the soul."
[Artistic discrimination in film]
NV Lindsay's The Art of the Moving Picture, known as the starting point of film criticism in America, was published in 1915, the same year that DW Griffith's masterpiece The Birth of a Nation was released. The poet Lindsay, for example, likened movie theaters to the darkness of the burial chambers of pyramids, and compared actress Mary Pickford to the woman in Botticelli's painting, and viewed film in analogy with painting and other arts. He reduced the essence of film to three elements: "action," "intimacy," and "splendor," and defined it as "moving film is sculpture given movement, intimacy film is painting in motion, and splendor film is moving architecture."

*Some of the terminology that refers to "The Art of Cinema" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…同じころ,他の芸術との対比において映画の独自性を強調し,証明する方向に向かっていったカニュードは,映画における演劇性,とくに演劇をフィルムに撮っただけのフィルム・ダール社の作品を映画の敵とみなし,〈エクラニスト〉,すなわち〈スクリーンの芸術家〉は,〈現実を自分の心の夢に形どって変形し,魂の状態を表現するために光を細工しなければならない〉と主張するに至るのである。
[映画における〈芸術的差別〉]
 アメリカにおける映画批評の原点として知られるN.V.リンゼーの《映画の芸術The Art of the Moving Picture》が出版されたのは,D.W.グリフィスの大作《国民の創生》が公開された1915年のことであった。詩人のリンゼーは,例えば映画館をピラミッドの玄室の暗やみにたとえたり,女優のメリー・ピックフォードをボッティチェリの絵の女に比較したり,映画を絵画や他の芸術とのアナロジーにおいてとらえ,映画の本質を〈アクション(動き)〉〈インティマシー(人情)〉〈スプレンダー(壮麗)〉という三つの要素に還元し,〈動きの映画は彫刻に動きを与えたものであり,人情の映画は絵画の動いたものであり,壮麗の映画は動く建築である〉と定義した。…

※「《映画の芸術》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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