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xiv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
helpful indeed— not to mention that his interest was a source of comfort to me. The chapter on photography owes much to the suggestions of such authorities in the field as Mr. Beaumont Newhall and Mr. Edward Steichen. In long and repeated discussions with the late Erich Auerbach, Professor Meyer Schapiro, and Professor Rudolf Arnheim I greatly benefited by their scholarly experience and the views they held of many a relevant problem and controversial issue. To revert to Mr. Griffith, I drew heavily on his wide knowledge of film and its history. How can I sufficiently appreciate Mr. Paul Rotha's share in my work? He read my manuscript with a watchful eye to detail; and the exhaustive talks we had in New York, Wilmington (Vermont), and London— talks animated by professional concern and sympathetic understanding— echo throughout the book. Even though I am fully aware that my wife would prefer to remain in the background, I cannot possibly avoid naming her here: the sureness of her judgment and the breadth of her insight were invaluable to me.
In addition, I am deeply grateful to Mr. Arthur Knight and Mr. Eric Larrabee, both of whom went over my manuscript once it was virtually finished. The former took the trouble to comb it for factual inaccuracies, suggesting improvements in a number of places. Mr. Larrabee on his part edited the whole in a spirit of selfless friendship which moved him to treat the text with a strictness constantly mitigated by tenderness. Nor can I think without gratitude of the measure of personal devotion which Mr. Sheldon Meyer of the Oxford University Press manifested in readying the completed manuscript for publication.
Finally, I wish to thank the publishing houses which granted me permission to quote passages from the following works: Random House, from Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past; Princeton University Press, from Erich Auerbach's Mimesis; Harcourt, Brace and Company, from Sergei Eisenstein's Film Form and E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel; and Arthur Geist Verlag, Bremen, from Wolfgang Wilhelm's Die Auftriebswirkung des Films.
S.K.