Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen

This ambitious survey chronicles text and typography in 20th-century artists' films and experimental cinema

From credits to subtitles to title cards and beyond, texts play a critical part in the structure of a film. Yet, away from the world of mainstream cinema, where the work of renowned title designers such as Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro has gained critical consideration, these textual--and visual--elements have often been overlooked. In Read Frame Type Film, film curator Enrico Camporesi, g...