Life to Those Shadows

by Noël Burch

Book Overview

No l Burch's singularly perceptive view of film and its origins will interest all who care about film theory and history. Life to Those Shadows presents a critique of "classical" approaches to film: the assumptions that what we call the language of film was a natural, organic development, and that it lay latent from the outset in the basic technology of the camera, waiting for the prescient pioneers to bring it into being. The view that film...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520071441
• ISBN13: 9780520071445
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"