The cinema : 1952 (1952)

Record Details:

Title:
The cinema : 1952
Date:
1952
Publisher:
Harmondsworth : Penguin Books
Volume:
The cinema : 1952
Leaf #:
000216
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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J. A. WILSON Film and Society Some Notes for a Critical Theory J. A. Wilson is the film critic of The Scotsman. He was invited to chose his own subject, and the result is an interesting addition to the preceding group of articles. Your Critic Right or Wrong! His theme is that the film is, in all its forms, a criticism of life, and that it can function satisfactorily only when the conditions governing its production are themselves healthy. c We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like : and if the art we like is bad, then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?' -(Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts. ) Alistair Cooke, a felicitous writer on the movies, once suggested that at any given period in history the fundamental critical issue was always plain and clear-cut to the people who were interested: with Castelvetro it was the unities, with the Elizabethans it was the offence and defence of rhyme, with the gay nineties it was c Is literature moral or isn't it?' The cinema, in many ways the dominant art of our time, has become because of its nature a mirror of the community in which it is produced, and it would seem that the relation between the film and society may well become a central problem for critical analysis.