What about Film? Initiating thoughts ::

Film is a comparatively new medium which unifies different arts in a very expressive way. There are e.g. aspects of music to intensify every kind of picture – which could, for itself, an expression of fluent painting, sculpture and more as an extended exhibition of performing arts. And there is also any kind of text presented e.g. in monologues, dialogues or narrative parts. So all in all, film enables a ingenious combination of music, picture, “performance” & literature. So the outstanding opportunities of an interpretation with reference to other media, first of all literature – every film needs a written script – are becoming obvious.

What about Literature? Initiating thoughts ::

Writing is a very old discipline, so our contemporary literature bases on a nearly infinite tradition. There are a lot of ancient and antique sources, which are still used for creating stories as amalgamation of classical ideas and modern reflections on prevailing societies.

Whether the great Greeks, like Homer or Hesiod, with their mythological narrations about the godfather Zeus and his Olympian Empire, the famous Italians Petrarca and Dante, Spanish Cervantes, at some remote period a British poet named Shakespeare, later Germans like Goethe and Schiller, Balzac and Hugo in France, the Russian Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky etc. – the legacy is gigantic.

In respect to that, literature is a magnific field not only to conserve dynamic cultures, it is one of the oldest arts and ways to reveal, express human feelings and conditions of human life on an elaborate level and with the effort of our most important acquirement – the speech.

QUITE ART:: About

Literature and film, two massive, close related pillars in our modern culture & society. The aim of this blog is it to give you, as recipient, insights into selected contemporary masterpieces & timeless, too.

As idea there will be two head-categories and two sub-categories (for each):

Quite Literature & Quite Film (on top)

and

Quite Contemporary & Quite Classic (sub)

As a implemented result that means there are four subjects:
Quite Classic Literature & Quite Contemporary Literature
and
Quite Classic Film & Quite Contemporary Film


A list of all themes you will find here: 

List of posts (Quite Literature) and

List of posts (Quite Film)

Besides: links, quotes & more..

the author,

Alexander Fischer::