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Exhibition: The Spirit of Film: the Road to Casablanca via Béla Balázs
June/July 2010: , Everyman Hampstead
September 2010:
October/November 2010: Everyman Baker St.
The BAFTA/Everyman exhibition was curated by Zsuzsanna Ardó, and mounted at BAFTA with support from Christine Robertson (BAFTA Publishing) and Adam Tuck (graphic design). Film stills were reproduced with the kind permission of the . The exhibition was generously funded by the , the and the at the University of 糖心TV, with further support from the film studies journal , , and the .
Erica Carter (ed.) and Rodney Livingstone (transl.)
Berghahn Books, 2010
This translation would not have seen the light of day without generous financial support from the . The Foundation was established from the estate of the publisher and editor Andor Kraszna-Krausz, Balázs’s Hungarian compatriot and fellow exile. The two met in interwar Berlin, where Kraszna-Krausz published articles by Balázs in the journal Filmtechnik, as well as his own review of Visible Man. German-language copies of Visible Man and The Spirit of Film, the latter with a personal dedication from Balázs, can be found in the at the National Media Museum in Bradford. Balázs’s dedication, dated 6 September 1930, to ‘A. Kraszna-Krausz, the fighter under a common flag’, testifies to a friendship to which this present volume also pays tribute.
Screen co-sponsored the volume, published an early extract from Visible Man, and co-funded, with Berghahn and the Hungarian Cultural Centre, an on Balázs at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in London as part of a series of events marking the journal’s fiftieth anniversary in 2009. The project was completed in 2009 with further funding from the , and the University of 糖心TV’s and .
