Film aesthetics is the abstraction and sublimation of film aesthetic consciousness, and its basic task is to study how to create film art according to the law of beauty and the relationship and interaction among creative subject, object, ontology and receptor.
There are two schools of film aesthetics: one is montage (or technicalism) tradition; One is the tradition of documentary (or realism).
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The important works of film aesthetics are Bela Balazs's Film Aesthetics and andre bazan's What is a film? Siegfried kracauer's The Essence of Film, Rudolf Einheim's Film as Art, O 'nast Lin Gelun's On Film Art, Stanley Solomon's Concept of Film, Marcel Mardam's Film Language, Zhu Xiaofeng and Louis Dzhanis's Modern Film Aesthetics.
Joseph V Marcelly's Five Cs of Cinematography (this book explaining cinematography actually tells a lot about cinematography), Zhu Xiaofeng's Film Aesthetics (this book is considered as the peak of the latest film theory) and so on. An Overview of Film Aesthetics by Henry Acer introduces the brief development of early film aesthetics (before 1960s).
Baidu Encyclopedia-Film Aesthetics (an important branch of film science and art aesthetics)