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Although The Film and the Public is intended as a successor to Roger Manvell's widely-read Pelican Film, it adopts an entirely new approach to the two main aspects of its subject the art of the film and the social importance of the cinema. The first part, 'Seen in Perspective', is the story of the expansion of the film as an international art from its beginnings to the present day, when it is breaking up into new and various forms ; this general story is supplemented and illustrated by detailed criticisms of a representative series of famous films, both silent and sound, and by a selection of stills in the pictorial section of the book.
Later sections, 'The Film as an Industry' and 'The Cinema and Society', explain the economic aspects of film production and exhibition, and the social problems which arise out of the cinema and in turn affect the film-maker himself, such as the social and psychological values established by the cinema, the star system, and censorship. Finally, Roger Manvell discusses the relationship of the film to television both now and in the future.
A feature of this new book is the very full list of outstanding books and articles on films and their makers, and a list of the more important films divided into the chief periods of film history and arranged under the names of their directors.
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