Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art

by Béla Balázs and Béla Balázs

Book Overview

This volume contains film theory and industry as a growing art. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486226859
• ISBN13: 9780486226859
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Profound and relevant

Written in the late 1940's, but with sections from the author's earlier works in the '20's and '30's, this deeply insightful work is entirely free of the jargon that so often infects critical writing about cinema. The section on sound, much of it written within a few years of the birth of sound-cinema, is astonishing for its insights about the potentials of a new form of expression.