VIZIONARSKA TEORIJSKA PROMIŠLJANJA O FILMU VACHELA LINDSAYJA. (Bosnian)

VACHEL LINDSAY'S VISIONARY THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON FILM. (English)

Although neglected for decades, American poet, journalist, and painter Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) made a significant contribution to the rising film theory with his book The Art of The Moving Picture, the first American study of a kind, published in 1915. Having noticed the widespread popularity of silent movies among the millions of film lovers in the USA, Lindsay proposed that this new visual art form, which, according to him, represented a combination of a traditional theatre play and diverse elements of painting, sculpture, architecture and other forms of visual expression that he called photoplay, could, in due time, become a true American art brand. For that reason, he advocated the establishment of film schools, film libraries and archives, as well as the use of film for educational purposes in schools. This paper analyzes Lindsay's key theoretical tenets of film as an important fine art as presented in his book The Art of The Moving Picture, as well as his visionary predictions regarding the later development of film (and later television) as not just lucrative, commercial products, but also an interesting field of academic study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Iako decenijama zanemarivan, američki pjesnik, novinar i slikar Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) dao je značajan doprinos filmskoj teoriji u nastanku u knjizi The Art of The Moving Picture, prvoj američkoj knjizi na tu temu, objavljenoj 1915. Budući je zapazio široku popularnost nijemih filmova među milionima Amerikanaca, Lindsay je smatrao da ova nova vizuelna umjetnička forma, koja, po njemu, predstavlja kombinaciju tradicionalnog teatarskog komada sa različitim elementima slikarstva, kiparstva, arhitekture i drugih oblika vizuelnih iskaza i koju je nazvao photoplay, može, s vremenom, postati istinski američki umjetnički proizvod, te se iz tog razloga i zalagao za uspostavljanje filmskih škola, biblioteka i arhiva, kao i korištenje filma u edukativne svrhe. Ovaj rad analizira Lindsayjeve temeljne teorijske postavke o filmu kao važnoj lijepoj umjetnosti koje je iznio u spomenutoj knjizi, kao i njegovo vizionarsko predviđanje kasnijeg razvoja filma, pa i televizije, kao unosnih komercijalnih aktivnosti, ali i interesantnog naučnog polja izučavanja. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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