The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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Title:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Date:
1916
Publisher:
New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company
Volume:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Leaf #:
000177
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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THE PHOTOPLAY istic in its various fields. We miglit also turn, to the applied arts, to architecture, to arts and crafts, and so on and see how new rules must arise from the combination of purely- artistic demands and those of practical util- ity. But this would lead us too far into es- thetic theory, while our aim is to push for- ward toward the problem of the photoplay. Of painting, of drama, and of music we had to speak because with them the photoplay does share certain important conditions and accordingly certain essential forms of render- ing the world. Each element of the photoplay is a picture, flat like that which the painter creates, and the pictorial character is funda- mental for the art of the film. But surely the photoplay shares many conditions with the drama on the stage. The presentation of conflicting action among men in dramatic scenes is the content, on the stage as on the screen. Our chief claim, however, was that we falsify the meaning of the photoplay if we simply subordinate it to the esthetic condi- tions of the drama. It is different from mere pictures and it is different from the drama, too, however much relation it has to both. But we come nearer to the understanding of 168