Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cohen, Marshall.

Description

1. xvii, 877 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Subject

1. Motion pictures
2. Motion Pictures

Genre/Form

1. Motion pictures
2. Films.

Contents

1. Film and reality -- From Theory of film : Basic concepts / Siegfried Kracauer -- From What is cinema? : Myth of total cinema / André Bazin -- From Film as art : The complete film / Rudolf Arnheim -- Revolt against realism in the films / William Earle -- From Film as film : Form and discipline / V.F. Perkins -- From Semiotics of cinema : The illusion of reality / Jurij Lotman -- Film image and film language -- From Film technique : On editing / Vsevolod Pudovkin -- From Film form : Tthe cinematographic principle and the ideogram ; The dialectic approach to film form / Sergei Eisenstein -- From What is cinema? : Evolution of the language of cinema / André Bazin -- Cinemascope : before and after / Charles Barr -- From Film language : Some points in the semiotics of cinema / Christian Metz -- Christian Metz and the semiology of the cinema / Alfred Guzzetti -- Semiotics and the cinema : Metz and Wollen / Gilbert Harman -- On the contribution of film to semiotics / Umberto Eco -- Eco-location / Gilbert Harman -- The film medium -- Style and medium in the motion pictures / Erwin Panofsky -- From Theory of film : Establishment of physical existence / Siegfried Kracauer -- From Film as art : Film and reality ; Making of a film / Rudolf Arnheim -- From Theory of the film : The close-up ; The face of man / Béla Balász -- From Film/cinema/movie : Projection / Gerald Mast -- From The world viewed : Photograph and screen ; Audience, actor, and star ; Types, cycles as genres ; Ideas of origin / Stanley Cavell -- Basic film aesthetics / F.E. Sparshott.
2. Film, theater, and literature -- From The film, a psychological study : The means of a photoplay / Hugo Munsterberg -- Film and theatre / Susan Sontag -- From What is cinema? : Theater and cinema / André Bazin -- From Film form : Dickens, Griffith, and film today / Sergei Eisenstein -- From Novels into film : Limits of the novel and the film / George Bluestone -- Narration and narrativity in film / Robert Scholes -- Kinds of film -- From The world in a frame : Genre, the conventions of connection / Leo Braudy -- Movie chronicle, the Westerner / Robert Warshow -- The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag -- From From reverence to rape : The woman's film / Molly Haskell -- Comedy's greatest era / James Agee -- Chinatown and generic transformation in recent American films / John G. Cawelti -- Nonfiction film : the realist impulse / Richard Meran Barsam -- The lovely art : magic / Gilbert Seldes -- Suspended animation / Joe Adamson -- Film and the radical aspiration / Annette Michelson.
3. The film artist -- Before the cameras roll / Otis Ferguson -- Notes on the auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris -- Circles and squares / Pauline Kael -- From Signs and meaning in the cinema : The auteur theory / Peter Wollen -- The Hollywood screenwriter / Richard Corliss -- From The comic mind, comedy and the movies : Preston Sturges and the dialogue tradition / Gerald Mast -- The men with the movie cameras / Richard Koszarski -- The face of Garbo / Roland Barthes -- Garbo / Kenneth Tynan -- Uncensored Garbo / Charles Affron -- Film and society -- From Magic and the myth of the movies : Preface / Parker Tyler -- From Expanded cinema : Art, entertainment, entropy / Gene Youngblood -- From We're in the money : Frank Capra and screwball comedy, 1931-1941 / Andrew Bergman -- John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln / editors of Cahiers du cinéma -- Toward a non-bourgeois camera style / Brian Henderson -- The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 871-877.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain