The Art of the Moving Picture
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Vachel Lindsay
(4,75 Sterne; 4 Bewertungen)
"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pictures as an art form, one that was potentially as rich, complex, mysterious as far older ones, and whose physical and aesthetic properties were only starting to be understood. The highlight of the book might be “The Motion Picture of Fairy Splendor,” which examines the relationship between film storytelling, magic, myths, legends and bedtime stories. It’s discombobulating, in a good way, to read Lindsay’s attempts to grapple with what, precisely, cinema is. Being supposedly sophisticated 21st century people, we all feel as though we know what cinema is, and don’t need to have the basics explained to us, but this is really just vanity and ignorance talking. Bottom line: You haven’t really, seriously thought about movies — what they are, and what they can and cannot do, and become — until you’ve read this book." (Salon.com) (7 hr 6 min)
Chapters
BOOK II - THE UNCHALLENGED OUTLINE OF PHOTOPLAY CRITICAL METHOD / CHAPTER I - T…
7:55
Read by Barbara Clements
BOOK III. MORE PERSONAL SPECULATIONS AND AFTERTHOUGHTS NOT BROUGHT FORWARD SO D…
24:07
Read by Robert Hoffman
Bewertungen
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Ziffy
(5 Sterne)
This book was written in 1922, during the silent movie era, but many of Lindsay's observations about the different types of screen genres are valid today. Historical epics, comedies, love stories, dramas--the basic framework of these is still recognizable in today's movies, over 90 years on! An interesting side note: Lindsay singles out the work of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese silent-screen comedian. This turns out to be the same Sessue Hayakawa who portrayed Colonel Saito, the brutal but ineffective prison camp commander, in The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957).