About the book by Béla Balázs “The Visible Man, or the Culture of Cinema” Film theory to this day remains a rather shaky and uncertain sphere of intellectual activity, however, over the course of just over a century, it has had its achievements. These include the pioneering work “The Visible Man” (1924) by the Hungarian-German writer and screenwriter Béla Balázs, who tried at an early stage to determine what the specifics of the new art form were and what future awaited it.