The Cinema as Art

"The Cinema as Art, to those brought up on the "movie show and bubble gum ' image, must look like a pretentious contradiction in terms. As this book demonstrates, however, the cinema stands for an art form which is almost unique in immediacy and scope. The cinema stands for an art form which is almost unique in immediacy and scope . The authors explain, with over 300 exaples taken from films of every country and period, the stages by which a director isolates what is mentally and emotionally significant in a situation."--Amazon.com viewed February 8, 2021