Nonfiction Film Theory and Criticism, an anthology edited by Professor Richard Barsam of Richmond College, City University of New York, aims rather conspicuously at this textbook market. Barsam has made several previous book attempts to anticipate the needs of teachers and students in the documentary field.

Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen's Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Now in its seventh edition, this landmark text continues to offer outstanding coverage of more than a century of thought and writing about the movies. Incorporating classic texts by pioneers ...(展开全部)

These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andre Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is disc...(展开全部)

Film is made of moments. In its earliest form, the cinema was a moment: mere seconds recorded and projected into the darkness. Even as film has developed into today's complex and intricate medium, it is the brief, temporary and transitory that combines to create the whole. Our memories of films are composed of the moments we deem to be crucial: touchstones for our understanding...(展开全部)

Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Extensively revised and updated, this fifth edition is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in film theory and criticism. Featuring both classic texts and cutting-edge essays from almost a century of thought a...(展开全部)

Pratt 学院院长，著有The Vision of Robert Flaherty:The Artist as Myth and Filmmaker,Nonfiction Film Theory and Criticism,Filmguide to "Triumph of the Will"及In the Dark:A Primer of the Movies

Contents Part 1. History, Technology, and Aesthetics Introduction The Coming of Sound: Technological Change in the American Film Industry, by Douglas Gomery Economic Struggle and Hollywood Imperialism: Europe Converts to Sound, by Douglas Gomery Film Style and Technology in the Thirties: Sound, by Barry Salt The Evolution of Sound Technology, by Rick Altman Ideology and the Pra...(展开全部)