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French film director, essayist and novelist (1897–1953)

Also known as: Жан Эпштейн, جان إبستين, 장 엡슈타인, ジャン・エプスタン, 让·爱泼斯坦, Эпштейн Жан

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Writings on pure cinema, rhythm and visual music from the same French avant-garde milieu. (AI reason)
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Early manifestos proclaiming cinema the 'seventh art', with a lyrical, visionary theoretical tone. (AI reason)
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Béla Balázs1884–1949
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Early film theory on the close-up, the face and the visible human, echoing Epstein's ideas of photogénie. (AI reason)
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Ambitious theoretical writings on montage and film form from the silent avant-garde era. (AI reason)
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Dziga Vertov1896–1954
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Manifestos on the 'kino-eye' and the camera as a superhuman perceiving machine, akin to Epstein's view of the lens. (AI reason)
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Blaise Cendrars1887–1961
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Modernist prose and essays on cinema's speed, fragmentation and modern perception. (AI reason)
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Gilles Deleuze1925–1995
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Philosophical studies of the movement-image and time-image that engage directly with Epstein's ideas on cinematic time. (AI reason)
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Antonin Artaud1896–1948
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Writings on film and the unconscious that push cinema toward poetic, dreamlike states. (AI reason)
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André Bazin1918–1958
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Essays on the ontology of the photographic image and cinema's relation to reality. (AI reason)
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