Film is an art with a future, but that future needs to be shaped by the past. FILM PAST FILM FUTURE is a call to attention: 120 years of film-making has produced a rich language for images and for their sequencing, a language that needs learning and improving if we are going to fulfil the potential of film. In exploring this idea, the particular focus of this book is on the cinematic imagination. Is it the spectator using his or her imagination in...