In his preface the author states: "The cinema is now one of the main objects on which efforts should be concentrated in order to conduct the revolution in art a

Fascinating documentation of one of the most important film societies in American history.

This posthumous collection of writings illuminates Cocteau's own work for the cinema with detailed discussions of his aims, responses to criticism and his refle

The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and