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Theory of the film : (character and growth of a new art) (1952)

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X EDITING 118 Inevitable interpretation; When the scissors lie; Pictures have no tenses; Time in the film; Time as theme and experience; Continuity of form and atmosphere; Creative editing; Idea-associative editing; Flashbacks; Metaphorical montage; Poetic montage; Allegoric montage; Literary metaphors; Associations of ideas; Intellectual montage; Rhythm in montage; Speed in action and speed in cutting; Scene in ritardando, shots in accelerando; Length of shots; Rhythm of the sound film; Musical and decorative rhythm in cutting; Subjective cutting; Walking; Sport in the film; Inexpressive sport. XI PANORAMA 139 Experience of time; Dramatic quality of panorama. XII EXPRESSIVE TECHNIQUE OF THE CAMERA 143 Fading; Secret of the diaphragm; The camera shows invisible things; Time perspective; Psychology of the dissolve; Time and sequence; Picture size and dissolves; Dissolves and simpler stories; Dissolves and the linking of space; Narcosis; Changes of scene without movement; Dissolve and mental picture; Photographed curtains. Part II XIII PROBLEMS OF STYLE IN THE FILM 155 Pure cinematography; Films without story or hero; Film without a hero; Travel films; Instructional films which have a hero; Unknown proximity; News films; Epics of labour; Showing man; War films; Nature films. XIV FORMALISM OF THE AVANT-GARDE 174 Absolute film; Epistemology of aesthetics; Appearance of the outer world; Internal affairs; Conceptual films; Logic is the means, psychology the end; Surrealist films; Abstract film; Sound abstraction; Film sub-titles; False analogy.