The cinema : 1952 (1952)

Record Details:

Title:
The cinema : 1952
Date:
1952
Publisher:
Harmondsworth : Penguin Books
Volume:
The cinema : 1952
Leaf #:
000194
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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Tour Critic Right or Wrong i Film critics, unlike the chief critics of literature or art, seldom argue either in person or on paper about the principles of the art they claim to take so seriously. Gavin Lambert, formerly editor of Sequence and now in charge oftlie British Film Institute's publications, including Sight and Sound, has consented first of all to write his comments upon (and his disagreements with) a number of important points about the responsibilities of film critics raised by Roger Manvell in the first piece which follows in this section. Jack Beddington, who was for four years in charge of film production for the Ministry of Information, and is now Chairman of the Film Selection Sub-Committee of the National Film Library, contributes a third and quite independent point of view, with his comments on Roger Manveil's and Gavin Lambert's articles. ROGER MANVELL The subject for discussion with Gavin Lambert is : Of what use is the film critic to the public and to the film-maker, and from what source, rightly or wrongly, does he derive his standards of criticism. The critic in the past was usually either a philosopher (like Plato, Aristotle, or Lessing) or, alternatively, himself a practising artist or writer who turned aside now and then to consider the aesthetic principles of his art (like Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Keats, Wordsworth, and