The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema (1959)

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Title:
The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema
Date:
1959
Publisher:
New York : Hill and Wang
Volume:
The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema
Leaf #:
00011
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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INTRODUCTION to the methodology of the organisation of bourgeois film production and the nature of its aesthetics, in both of which social limitations tend to prevent a clear approach to understanding the specific qualities of the new art form. The Soviet cinema is founded and developed on other principles, and for us the question of the respective roles of every person participating in the creative group acquires a different character, one oriented solely and unrestrictedly on the specific qualities of cinema and the peculiarities of its creative process. I make no claim that the following chapters constitute an exhaustive basis for the theory of the camera-man's art. Even the very term ' camera-man's art ' is used only provisionally, because the cinema as yet possesses no clear, established terminology. I shall have been successful in my task if, as I hope, I shall have indicated, even if only approximately, the main features of its creative peculiarities.