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tion.” All he can really say over twenty pages of elaboration is that film genres appear and then either evolve or vanish. Strangely, Tudor skirts the topic he himself set up to handle this problem by drawing on Berger and Luckman: genre as myth. Instead, he unfortunately attempts, in a chapter called “Movie Languages,” to adapt current British film theory to his task. Tudor’s only success here is in demonstrating how far he has departed from his Screen colleagues by his dependence on the Anglo-American sociology that is so alien to Screen’s European influences. Perhaps Tudor will one day develop his own way to deal with film style, one that will provide that. crucial link between film Criticism and his film culture sociology. As is obvious from Tudors apology for failing to do it here, the concluding chapter “Patterns of Change,” semiology will not provide the means. This is the sort of problem that sends writers like Andrew Tudor back to the drawing board. But that he has even stated such problems so that they can be worked over on a drawing board makes Image and Influence more than worth reading. In fact, it is easily the best book in the badly neglected area of the sociology of film yet written. Bart Testa Books on Film: A Checklist Woody Allen: Clown Prince of American Humor. By Bill Adler and Jeffrey Feinman. Pinnacle 1975. 178 pp. $1.75 (P). Alone With Me. By Eartha Kitt. Regnery 1976. 276 pp. $8.95 (H). (Beaverbooks, $10.50). The performer's autobiography. American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films 1961-1970. Richard P. Krafsur, ed. Bowker 1976. Vol. 1 (Films) 1268 pp., Vol. 2 (Indexes) 976 pp. $90. (H) per set (plus shipping & handling). An Analysis of Motion Pictures About War Released by the American Film Industry 1930-1970. By Russell Earle Shain. Arno Press 1976. 448 pp. $26. (H). A PhD dissertation. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Neo-realism: A World View. By Robert J. Lyons. Arno Press 1976. 207 pp. $12. (H). A PhD. dissertation. Fred Astaire. By Stephen Harvey. Pyramid 1975. 158 pp. $1.75 (P). (Barrdawn, $1.75). Authors in the News. Barbara Nykoruk, ed. Gale 1976. 502 pp. $24. (H). Compilation of articles about film, and other, writers. Jack Benny. By Irving A. Fein. Putman 1976. 319 pp. $8.95 (H). (Longman, $10.50). A biography. The Blue Dahlia. By Raymond Chandler. Southern Illinois University Press 1976. 139 pp. $10. (H), $3.95 (P). (Burns & McEachern, $11.95 (H), $4.75 (P)). Screenplay of 1944 Paramount film. A Book. By Desi Arnaz. Morrow 1976. 322 pp. $8.95 (H). (Gage, $10.95). The performer's autobiography. Cagney. By James Cagney. Doubleday 1976. 202 pp. $8.95 (H). (Doubleday, $9.95). California Time. By Frederic Raphael. Holt Rinehart Winston of Can. Ltd. 1976. 230 pp. $7.95 (H). An unusual novel about Hollywood. Chaplin’s Films. By Uno Asplund. Barnes 1976. 216 pp. $10. (H). (Smithers & Bonellie, $14.). Translated from the Swedish. A Comparative Study of Selected American Film Critics 1958-1974. By Joseph Dalton Blades, Jr. Arno Press 1976. 227 pp. $13. (H). A PhD. dissertation. The Drawings of Norman McLaren. By Norman McLaren. Scribner's 1975. 192 pp. $25. (H). (Tundra Books). Clint Eastwood. By Patrick Agan. Pyramid 1976. 188 pp. $1.25 (P). (Barrdawn, $1.25). The Effects of Television on the Motion Picture and Radio Industries. By Frederic Stuart. Arno Press 1976. 213 pp. $23. (H). A PhD. dissertation. The Fairbanks Album. By _ Richard Schickel. New York Graphics Society 1975. 286 pp. $19.95 (H). (McClelland & Stewart, $19.95.). Documents from the Fairbanks Family archives. Film and Revolution. By James Roy MacBean. Indiana U. Press 1976. 339 pp. $15. (H). $4.95 (P). Marxist approach to society’s impact on film and vice-versa. Fim Animation As a Hobby. By Andrew and Mark Hobson. Sterling 1975. 46pp. $5.95 (H) (Saunders, $7.50 (H), $11. Film Directors Guide: Western Europe. By James Robert Parish. Scarecrow 1976. 292 pp. $11. (H). The First Time. By Karl Fleming and Anne Taylor Fleming. Simon & Schuster 1975. 319 pp. $7.95 (H). (Musson, $8.95). The first sexual experience of Jack Lemmon, Mae West, Debbie Reynolds, Sally Kellerman et al. The John Ford Mystery. By Andrew Sarris. University of Indiana Press 1976. 192 pp. $8.95 (H). A study of Ford’s films. The Milos Forman Stories. By Antonin J. Liehm. International Arts and Sciences Press 1975. 191 pp. $15. (H). (68 Publishers) A biography. From Hollywood. By DeWitt Bodeen. Barnes 1976. 352 pp. $15. (H). (Smithers & Bonellie, $21.). Performers’ biofilmographies. “An outstanding volume on film aesthetics and mechanics.” —Cinema Booklist Five years in the making, /nto Film is certain to be recognized as the finest and most comprehensive guide to every aspect of film-making. Through almost 1400 still photographs taken from frames from over 100 films, the authors explore some of the most beautiful, powerful and compelling film sequences ever created—from Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation to the films of such modern masters as Antonioni, Bergman, Ford and Hitchcock. In addition, segments of shorter films— documentaries, experimental films, commercials and student work—have been included, for they provide examples of important techniques and also give the reader the added advantage of checking the authors’ explanations against everyday experience. Also included are two 10-second flip sequences—from Eisenstein’s Potemkin and Godard’s Breathless. “Intelligent and helpful. Recommended.” —STANLEY KAUFFMANN The New Republic 608 pages, appendixes, bibliography, glossary. $12.95, paper; $19.95, cloth 201 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10003 —D dutton tad 49