Movie Criticism - Eiga Hihyo

Japanese: 映画批評 - えいがひひょう
Movie Criticism - Eiga Hihyo

...Following this, German theater scholar B. Diebold pointed out the "newness" of film, saying that "film creates art with machines." Italian R. Canudo (1879-1923), who began writing about film in 1908, became one of the promoters of the new art movement in Paris, calling himself a film critic (in fact, he became the world's first film critic and film theorist, and his collection of essays, "The Factory of Images," was published posthumously in 1927), and defined film as a new art that connects the arts of time (music, poetry, dance) with the arts of space (architecture, sculpture, painting), that is, the "seventh art." Also, in 1916, Italian literary scholar F. Marinetti and others proclaimed "Futurist film" as a new art that liberates the cinematograph as a means of expression with the "diversity of expression" that all modern arts seek to explore. ...

*Some of the terminology related to "film criticism" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これに次いでドイツの演劇学者B.ディーボルトは〈映画は機械をもって芸術をつくる〉と映画の〈新しさ〉を指摘している。1908年から映画について書き始めたイタリア人R.カニュード(1879‐1923)は,パリで新しい芸術運動の推進者の一人となり,みずから映画批評家を名のって(実際,世界最初の映画批評家,映画理論家となり,その論集《イメージの工場》が没後1927年に刊行される),時間の芸術(音楽,詩,舞踊)と空間の芸術(建築,彫刻,絵画)をつなぐ新しい芸術,すなわち〈第七芸術〉と映画を定義した。また,16年にはイタリアの文学者F.マリネッティらが,あらゆる近代的な芸術の探究が目ざす“多様表現性”をもつ表現手段としてのシネマトグラフを解放する新しい芸術として〈未来派映画〉の宣言をする。…

※「映画批評」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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