FEATURES OF RUDOLF ARNHEIM'S THEORY OF FILM

Rudolf Arnheim is best known for his famous book on silent cinema film as art. He is one of the famous scholars in the fields of art and art history; he gave completely his work on the theory of cinema. His theories described form, perception, emotion and their role in contemporary film and media studies. He also contributed in the works on the visual arts to bear on film and media. His theories on the film help us to refine our grasp of film as art.

Arnheim’s movie writings in relation to modernism, his strong dislike to sound as well as color in movie, the forming of his early ideas on movie against the social and political backdrop of the day, the wider uses of his way in which something is done, and the implications of his work for digital media.
1) a special camera that filmed scenes in five languages at the same time – the camera was equipped with to do with vision filters to select those elements that were compatible with different countries’ tastes; and the movie was developed using developing solutions flavored with tomato sauce for the person from Italy version, ‘bouillabaisse’ for the French, Bavarian amber fluid for the German, and tea for the English

2) A technique of recording sound on a thread, for editing by a dress-maker or tailor

3) The Erotoscope, a telescope that radiated invisible ultraviolet rays, through which a special guardian was able to discover any violations of public morality in the cinema during the projection; the guilty had to pay a fine, according to the gravity of the offense

4) the discovery of a movie singular form of bacteria that infected the the group most likely to be interested and led to ‘screen-phobia’ – the extreme dislike of movie screenings – which after further two weeks of period of time from egg fertilization until hatching becomes ‘screen-mania’, resulting in a considerable weakening of the pa-tent’s cash resources; in the third stage of this disease, the subject experiences an irresistible want to have to become an actor, director or production manager

5) Arnheim also reported the invention of the close-up, or rather, of the in concept belief of of ‘close-up’. The person from Italy for close-up is ‘primo piano’, which means. Not only ‘foreground’ but also, and without exaggerating, ‘first floor’: the ‘primo piano’ was invented by an old woman called Emilia Close upper in her old home