formalism definition
formalism are by no means strangers to film studies, there remains a deep intuition that form is a spatial rather than a temporal or mobile concept. In an insightful footnote from her landmark essay “Against Interpretation,” Susan Sontag laments such an intuition: “One of the difficulties is that our idea of form is spatial (the Greek metaphors for form are all derived from notions of space). This is why we have a more ready vocabulary of forms for the spatial than for the temporal arts.”27 We can trace the logic of Sontag’s observation back to Henri Bergson’s conceptual opposition between