El concepto de belleza en el cine. De la sección áurea a la narración
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Universidad de Salamanca
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ISSN: 1135-7991, 1988-4001
Year of publication: 2023
Issue Title: Monograph: Communication and peace: a tribute to Johan Galtung
Issue: 28
Pages: 197-213
Type: Article
More publications in: CIC: Cuadernos de información y comunicación
Abstract
The concept of beauty is related to that of aesthetics ever since the origins of human thought. This article analyzes the concept of beauty in the field of cinematography as an exploratory essay, with the future intention of applying two opposing concepts: firstly, the mathematical one, following the theories of the Golden Section of the Greeks and the Renaissance law of Fibonacci; and secondly, the ontological and ethical-moral dimensions, where the opposites of aesthetic beauty and narrative ugliness can be contrasted. The general objective will be to assess whether beauty in its two fields of representation can be applied to cinema. The methodology is qualitative, collecting, on the one hand, the main theories of formal composition -Golden Section laws, the Fibonacci spiral and the law of thirds-; and on the other, the approaches of Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics) and Karl Rosenkranz (Aesthetics of the Ugly) of beauty and ontological ugliness.