Film as Art, 50th Anniversary Printing

by Rudolf Arnheim

Overview

In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim’s 1933 book Film by four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as Film as Art. Now nearly fifty years after that re-edition, the book continues to occupy an important place in the literature of film. Arnheim’s method, provocative in this age of technological wizardry, was to focus on the way art in film was derived from that medium’s early limitations: no sound, no color, no three-dimensional depth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520248373
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	03/06/2006
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rudolf Arnheim (1904—2007) was Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College. He was author of many books, including Art and Visual Perception, The Power of the Center, and Visual Thinking. 

Table of Contents

1957 A Personal Note

1933 Selections Adapted from Film
1 Film and Reality
2 The Making of a Film
3 The Content of the Film
4 The Complete Film

1933 The Thoughts That Made the Picture Move

1934 Motion

1935 A Forecast of Television

1938 A New Laocoon: Artistic Composites and the Talking Film