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The Art of the Moving Picture
Vachel Lindsay
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This book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pictures as an art form, one that was potentially as rich, complex, mysterious as far older ones, and whose physical and aesthetic properties were only starting to be understood.
This book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pictures as an art form, one that was potentially as rich, complex, mysterious as far older ones, and whose physical and aesthetic properties were only starting to be understood.
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An interesting and entertaining early example of film appreciation and criticism by the outstanding american poet Vachel Lindsay, first published in 1915 and later adjusted and slightly extended in a second edition in 1922.
It is an exploratory study of the art of photoplays or what are now called si
Está divido en dos partes. La segunda es una especulación sobre el poder del cine y el rumbo que debería tomar para engrandecer EEUU. Más allá del carácter profético conseguido y, por tanto, impresionante, es un poco denso.
Eso sí, la primera parte, donde analiza el cine hasta el momento y lo clasifi
A beautiful ode the Moving Picture, but it does have an unnecessary detour into hieroglyphics.
This book by Vachel Lindsey is an attempt to analyse film from a linguistic-based model of film theory. In her book - specifically the section referring to hieroglyphics - she compares the art of film with various different types of language systems. While this style of looking at film is useful to
Weird and kind of a tedious read, but lovable and insightful at the same time.