| Description |
384 pages : movie stills ; 18 cm |
| Series |
A Dutton paperback |
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Dutton paperback.
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| Contents |
The plastic material. The plastic material / V.I. Pudovkin ; Collision of ideas / Sergei Eisenstein ; The art of sound / René Clair ; Sight and sound / Gavin Lambert ; Direction / Alfred Hitchcock ; Acting and behaving / Alexander Knox ; The writer and the film / Dudley Nichols -- Film and the other arts. Sculpture-in-motion / Vachel Lindsay ; Movies and the human image / Parker Tyler ; The film is modern theatre / Hollis Alpert ; Film and theatre / Allardyce Nicoll ; Epic and dramatic film / Rudolf Arnheim ; A novelist looks at Hollywood / Robert Nathan ; Novels into film / George Bluestone ; Film has nothing to do with literature / Ingmar Bergman -- The cinematic essence. The faces of men / Béla Balázs ; Not theatre, not literature, not painting / Ralph Block ; Cloud cuckoo country / Mack Sennett ; Toward a film aesthetic / Herbert Read ; Toward true cinema / Slavko Vorkapich ; The film as an original art form / Hans Richter ; Space and time in the film / Arnold Hauser ; A note on the film / Susanne Langer -- Dream and reality. First principles of documentary / John Grierson ; Some ideas on the cinema / Cesare Zavattini ; Psychology of film experience / Hugo Mauerhofer ; Why I go to the cinema / Elizabeth Bowen ; Theory of film / Siegfried Kracauer ; The surfaces of reality / Michael Roemer -- An evolving art. The frontiers of realist cinema / Gordon Bachmann, Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker ; Television and the documentary quest / A. William Bluem ; Thoughts on my craft / Carl Dreyer ; CinemaScope before and after / Charles Barr ; Compound entendre / Stan Vanderbeek ; Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas ; Are movies going to pieces? / Pauline Kael ; Towards a new cinema / Penelope Houston ; We must continue making progress / François Truffaut ; The road beyond neorealism / Federico Fellini |
| Analysis |
AESTHETICS |
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BACHMANN, GIDEON |
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BALAZS, BELA |
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BERGMAN, INGMAR |
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CINEMASCOPE |
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CLAIR, RENE |
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DOCUMENTARIES |
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DREW, ROBERT |
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DREYER, CARL TH |
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EJZENSTEJN, SERGEJ M |
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Fellini, Federico |
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Grierson, John |
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HITCHCOCK, ALFRED |
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KAEL, PAULINE |
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KNOX, ALEXANDER |
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KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED |
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LEACOCK, RICHARD |
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MEKAS, JONAS |
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NEOREALISM |
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NICHOLS, DUDLEY |
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PENNEBAKER, D. A |
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PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD |
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RICHTER, HANS |
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ROEMER, MICHAEL |
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SENNETT, MACK |
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THEORY |
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TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS |
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VANDERBEEK, STAN |
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VORKAPICH, SLAVKO |
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ZAVATTINI, CESARE |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures.
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| Author |
MacCann, Richard Dyer.
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| LC no. |
66003425 |
| ISBN |
0525471812 |
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