The movies as medium / selected, arranged and introduced by Lewis Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Lewis, compiler.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1970]

Contents:

I. Aims and attitudes. Directors speak / Lindsay Anderson [and others]. II. The nature of film expression. The raw material / Lewis Jacobs. III. The plastic elements. The meaningful image / Lewis Jacobs

The ambiguity of the photographic image / Arthur Goldsmith

On image and word / Nicola Chiaromonte

The subjective camera / Herbert A. Lightman

Composition of the moving image / Gregg Toland

Movement : real and cinematic / Lewis Jacobs

Movement in movies / Ezra Goodman

Thoughts on movement / Hilary Harris

Modern uses of the moving camera / Stanley J. Solomon

Change of camera viewpoint / Irving Pichel

The expression of time and space / Lewis Jacobs

The faces of time / Robert Gessner

Tempo and tension / Maya Deren

Time and space / John Howard Lawson

Rhythm / Ivor Montagu.

(Cont'd) The mobility of color / Lewis Jacobs

Color and color films / Carl Dreyer

One path to color / Sergei Eisenstein

Coming to terms with color / William Johnson

Sound as speech, noise, music / Lewis Jacobs

The acoustic world / Bela Belazs

Treatment of sound in The city / Henwar Rodakiewicz

Music in the movies / Kurt Weill. IV. The plastic structure. Dynamic composition / Alexander Bakshy

The sense of form in cinema / Arthur Lennig

The other direction / Jonas Mekas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-328) and index.

"Noonday 388"--Cover.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0374508526

9780374508524

OCLC:

89814