The cinema : 1952 (1952)

Record Details:

Title:
The cinema : 1952
Date:
1952
Publisher:
Harmondsworth : Penguin Books
Volume:
The cinema : 1952
Leaf #:
0002
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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ABOUT THIS BOOK The main feature in this new volume of The Cinema 1952 is a series of extracts from the screenplays of six very varied British films, introduced by the film-makers themselves. The death last year of Robert Flaherty, whose brilliant contribution to The Cinema 1950 is still being quoted, is followed in this issue by the exciting adventure story which an Eskimo called Comock told Flaherty during his travels in the North, and which Flaherty himself recorded for the B.B.G. Other contributions include some pages from Eisenstein's Diary Notes on Potemkin ; a detailed study by Karel Reisz of how the film-makers have handled four important novels which were turned into films; some observations on television by a documentary film-maker, Michael Clarke ; and a debate-on-paper about film criticism between Roger Manvell, Gavin Lambert and Jack Beddington. A selected list of the year's feature films is included in this volume, together with sixtyfour pages of illustrations. Reviewing The Cinema 1951 the Newcastle Journal said : All cinema-goers should read this book. ... And with all the information in this book, from story and scriptconferences to location and studio shooting, it should help towards a better critical and analytical approach to picture-going.