S・クラカウアーの映像論

その意味と展開の試み（日本映像学会第九回大会研究発表）

抄録

S. Kracauer, in his book ‘Theory of Film’, tries to find the significance of the medium where the nature of the medium follows properties of the medium itself. And he calls the findings to be ‘the basic aesthetic principle’. He posturates that the properties of the photography and the film are to record and to reveal the physical reality.

He analyzes the common problems of the photography and the film; the problems concerning the photographic or the cinematic approach, affinities and appeals. It is supposed that they are making the core of his theory.

Especially, the concept of affinities is important. They consist of unstaged reality, the fortuitous, endlessness and the indeterminate that are in common with photography and film, and a flow of life is added actually to the case of film. Affinities are to be considered aspects of the physical reality. This concept of affinities determine the condition of the properties of media. Because they are able to be recorded and to be revealed only by the photographic and the cinematic media.

The purpose of my research is to look for the possibility of a new image-making, and especially to try to find some methods of recording and revealing of the physical aspects of the reality made through the contemporary image media.