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

Record Details:

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 #:
000178
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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THE CINEMA AS A GRAPHIC ART is hardly likely to notice that there has been any change. The type image is prepared to exact order ; it completely corresponds with the suburban and petty bourgeois conception of the " glowing " face of a young mother. In its various interpretations the theory of photogenics has taken strong root in the creative work of the bourgeois cinema. It is characteristic of the trends of that cinema, for lack of ideas is the basis of its work — it cannot have any other understanding of beauty. Because it endeavours from imagined immanent qualities of the object to justify the possibility or impossibility of that object's expressive construction in the cinema, it is a reactionary theory, limiting the creative horizons of cinema as a whole and of the camera-man in particular. 1 80