The Emergence Of Film Art

Preface / Lewis Jacobs PART ONE: THE SILENT FILM (1900-1930) Introduction: A New Medium, A New Art = 4 Ⅰ. Creative Pioneers Georges Méliès: Artificially Arranged Scenes / Lewis Jacobs = 10 Edwin S. Porter and the Editing Principle / Lewis Jacobs = 20 D. W. Griffith: New Discoveries / Lewis Jacobs = 36 Ⅱ. The Supremacy of Technique The Birth of a Nation: The Technique and Its Influence / Seymour Stem = 58 D. W. Griffith: Social Crusader / Richard Watts, Jr. = 80 Ⅲ. Toward a Silent Film Esthetic The German Film / Paul Rotha = 85 The French Avant-Garde / George Morrison = 111 The Passion of Jeanne D’Arc / Harry Alan Potamkin = 118 Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Others / Dwight Macdonald = 122 The Composition of Potemkin / Sergei Eisenstein = 147 PART TWO: THE SOUND AND COLOR FILM (1930-1950) Introduction: An Expanding Art = 158 Ⅳ. New Plastic Elements The Sound Film / Alberto Cavalcanti = 170 Camera and Microphone / John Howard Lawson = 187 The Composer and the Motion Picture / Hanns Eisler = 198 The Problem of Color / Robert Edmond Jones = 206 The Man Who Was Colorblind / Len Lye = 210 Ⅴ. Originality and Style Nanook / Robert Flaherty = 215 The Films of Rene Clair / Maurice Bardeche and Robert Brasillach = 222 The Method of John Ford / Lindsay Anderson = 230 The Animated Cartoon and Walt Disney / William Kozlenko = 246 Cartoons as Art / Aline Saarinen = 254 Movies Without a Camera / Harold Benson = 258 The Study of a Colossus: Citizen Kane / Peter Cowie = 262 The Course of Italian Neorealism / Arthur Knight = 275 PART THREE: THE CREATIVE PRESENT (1950-) Introduction: New Realities, New Visions = 286 Ⅵ. Patterns of Involvement Why I Make Movies / Ingmar Bergman = 296 The Literary Sophistication of François Truffaut / Michael Klein = 305 A Movie Is a Movie Is a Movie Is a / Andrew Sarris = 315 Movie Brutalists / Pauline Kael = 321 Dostoevsky With a Japanese Camera / Donald Richie = 330 Director of Enigmas: Alain Resnais / Eugene Archer = 338 Fellini’s Double City / Eric Rhode = 343 The Event and the Image / Michelangelo Antonioni = 355 Shape Around a Black Point / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith = 358 Richard Lester / Philip French = 370 Saul Bass / Raymond Gid = 384 Ⅶ. The Seeds of Change Cinema of Common Sense: A View of Cinéma-Vérité / Colin Young = 386 The Auteur Theory Re-examined / Donald E. Staples = 394 Free Cinema and the New Wave / Jonas Mekas = 402 Film Happenings / Jonas Mekas = 422 The Film Generation / Stanley Kauffmann = 425 A Minor Masterpiece―Dušan Makavejev’s WR: Mysteries of the Organism / Lawrence Becker = 440 The Zen Artistry of Yasujiro Ozu / Marvin Zeman = 443 Jancsó Plain / Gideon Bachmann = 459 Politics and Poetry in Two or Three Things I Know About Her and La Chinoise / James Roy MacBean = 470 The Dark Night of the Soul of Robert Bresson / Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr. = 480 The Ideological Foundations of the Czech New Wave / Robin Bates = 494 Luis Buñuel: An Integral Vision of Reality / Randall Conrad = 506 Merchant of Four Seasons: Structures of Alienation / Barbara Learning = 519 Acknowledgments = 525 Index = 529

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