A grammar of the film : an analysis of film technique (1950)

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Contents Chapter VII — Categories of the Film b. Descriptions 1 . Origin of the documentary movement in the class struggle page 27 5 2. The film symphony and the documentary movement 280 3. Definition of the documentary: Mr. Grierson 284 4. Mr. Braun 285 5. Mr. Blakeston 287 6. A new definition suggested and tested by several criteria 288 7. Characteristics of the documentary 295 8. The danger of categories in making films: their necessity in criticizing them 296 9. The imagist film 297 10. The synthetic film: description by de grees of naturalism 299 1 1 . The silhouette film 300 12. The model film 301 13. The drawn film 302 14. The limitations of the synthetic film in respect of unrealism 303 15. Conclusions 306 Chapter VIII — Conclusion 1. The denunciation of the cinema: reply to Mr. Ervine 308 21