Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The second installment of video lectures about film theorists Bela Balazs and Jean Epstein and their writings on the close-up, paired with an analysis of the film The Master (Anderson, 2012).
Specifically, we'll look at the ways that the Balazs's and Epstein's respective theories of the close-up differ in terms of how well they map onto a Freudian understanding of the body's revelation of the unconscious. This idea is thematized in The Master, a film largely about the questions surrounding the mysterious inner world of its main character and a cult that believes that the unconscious mind harbors forgotten memories of past lives.
The second installment of video lectures about film theorists Bela Balazs and Jean Epstein and their writings on the close-up, paired with an analysis of the film The Master (Anderson, 2012).
Specifically, we'll look at the ways that the Balazs's and Epstein's respective theories of the close-up differ in terms of how well they map onto a Freudian understanding of the body's revelation of the unconscious. This idea is thematized in The Master, a film largely about the questions surrounding the mysterious inner world of its main character and a cult that believes that the unconscious mind harbors forgotten memories of past lives.
