An introduction to film art, with the objective of introducing the "ordinary filmgoer" to new ways to appreciate the medium. Particular references to D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Sergei Eisenstein, Sound technology, talkies, cinematography, script specimens from 'Gaslight', La bete humaine, Fritz Lang, The Battleship Potemkin, Odd Man Out, Carol Reed, film theory, film education, Julien Duvivier, Lumiere Brothers, Pudovkin.

Item number 44745
Category Book
Type Criticism/History
Dimensions h 222; w 147mm; d 21mm
Language English
Country of origin UK
Related people Ernest Lindgren (author)

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection