Bloomsbury and the Cinema: Practice and Theory of a New Form of Expression

Just as Bloomsbury introduced post-impressionism in Great Britain, the cinema was beginning to emerge as a new art, introducing new visual vocabularies and perceptions. Our aim is to analyse Bloomsbury’s ethics and aesthetics in relation with the new issues raised by the technology of the moving pic...

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Main Author: Floriane Reviron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2005-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/13603
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Summary:Just as Bloomsbury introduced post-impressionism in Great Britain, the cinema was beginning to emerge as a new art, introducing new visual vocabularies and perceptions. Our aim is to analyse Bloomsbury’s ethics and aesthetics in relation with the new issues raised by the technology of the moving pictures and the cross-fertilization between the terminology created by Bloomsbury and avant-garde film criticism. Bloomsbury’s own practice of film criticism was informed by formalism and abstraction and attests to a confluence between pictorial post-impressionism and cinematic expressionism.
ISSN:0220-5610
2271-6149