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Formalism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
FORMALISM. Formalism in literary studies was not merely about formal elements of literature...when separated from the latter and vice versa. At the same time, formalism stressed the need to view literature as an autonomous verbal art...
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formalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
formalism. A term used in the discussion of the...x2019; Greenberg's ideas on formalism were more sophisticated but no less dubious...are to a large extent interdependent. Formalism has been particularly opposed in Communist...
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Shostakovich, Dmitry (Dmitryevich)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...petty-bourgeois sensationalism’, and ‘formalism’ in an article headed ‘Chaos instead...following the notorious Zhdanov decree against ‘formalism’ and ‘anti-people art’...
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Clear
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
...Burstall and J.A. Goguen in 1977. The language provides a formalism for expressing a complex specification hierarchically as a combination of simpler ones. This formalism can be given a precise semantics using ideas familiar from algebra...
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lambda calculus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
lambda calculus ( λ-calculus ) A formalism for representing functions and ways of combining functions...a ) and hence to g ( a,b ) In theoretical terms, the formalism of λ-calculus can be shown to be equivalent in...
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Banshun
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...represents a surprising move toward rectifying this polarization, Bordwell having been previously associated with Burch's strict formalism.) The treatment of spatial relations in Ozu's work certainly differs significantly from the Hollywood norms, and this...
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Morte a Venezia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...xE0; Venise Issue" of Avant-Scène du Cinéma (Paris), July 1971. Korte, Walter, "Marxism and Formalism in the Films of Luchino Visconti," in Cinema Journal (Evanston, Illinois), Fall 1971. Oudart, J. P., and S. Daney...
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Teni Zabytykh Predkov
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Soviet motion picture enjoyed such international esteem. At home, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors was variously accused of "formalism" and "Ukrainian nationalism," and it was deliberately underbooked in domestic theaters by Sovkino officials. Paradzhanov...
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Valahol Europaban
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...in Italy by De Sica, Rossellini, and other film artists. The rebukes of contemporary critics, who called attention to "formalism for its own sake" have been forgotten. The masterly art of cameraman Barnabás Hegyi gives vitality to the poetic...
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Kozintsev, Grigori
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Rapisarda, Giusi, editor, La FEKS: Kozintsev e Trauberg, Rome, 1975. Christie, Ian, and John Gillett, Futurism, Formalism, FEKS: Eccentrism and Soviet Cinema 1918–36, London, 1978. Leaming, Barbara, Grigori Kozintsev, Boston...
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