[no discernible wear to book, some faint soiling to edges of text block; jacket has one tiny surface-nick at top edge of front panel, spine slightly tanned]. The second English-language collection of essays by Bazin, "the most important film theorist since World War II, [whose] ideas have been discussed throughout the film world and have influenced film making as well as film analysis. All [the essays] display Bazin's astonishing sensibilities at work on a wide range of subjects: from the stylistic integrity and love he sought in neorealism, through the mythological structures he discerne... View More...
(no dust jacket) [light wear to extremities and a bit along hinges, gilt spine lettering a bit dulled but still fully readable, one-time owner's name at top of ffep, light staining to rear free endpaper]. (B&W photographs) An early attempt to formulate an aesthetic of the cinema, not on a purely theoretical basis but also grounded in the realities of film production and economics: the author, as a scenarist himself, was well aware that this still-nascent art form operated as a unique fusion of art and business, and that "the task of the film artist is always....to effect a happy union bet... View More...
[nice clean book, minimal wear to spine ends, a couple of tiny spots on top edge of text block; jacket lightly edgeworn (see notes)] (B&W photographs) A major theoretical work by the outspoken Hollywood Ten screenwriter, who apparently had a lot of time on his hands to think about such matters; a little prison time and some blacklisting will do that for you. The book is described in the jacket blurb as "the first serious attempt by an American writer to develop an aesthetic of the film, [combining] intimate practical experience in Hollywood with an understanding of avant-garde theory and... View More...
[spine slightly turned, minor shelfwear, some random ink underlining and margin notes on a few pages in the middle of the book, previous owner's name at top of front endpaper; the jacket is rubbed and scuffed, and has tiny bits of paper loss at the spine corners]. "A pioneering attempt to apply the insights of structural linguistics to an area -- film -- which has a definite language of its own. [This book is] the first English translation of 'Essais sur la signification au cinema,' which was originally published in France in 1968 and has now been translated into five languages." (They can ... View More...
[nice clean, as-new book, with no discernible wear]. (Cambridge Studies in Film) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "A collection of essays by the filmmaker and critic Eric Rohmer that were originally written for the French film review Cahiers du Cinema between 1948 and 1979. Rohmer, one of the founding members of the French 'New Wave' cinema, was one of the journal's original critics and also served as its editor. Divided into four sections, the essays deal with fundamental and theoretical questions of filmmaking from a single theoretical viewpoint. Rohmer writes in depth on the issues ... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice clean book, minor browning to cloth at top of spine, no other discernible wear; jacket has a couple of internal tape-repairs, minor wear to extremities]. This selection of Sarris's reviews and essays, mostly dealing with politically-themed films from 1971 through 1978, "explores the often adversary relationship between political reality and film illusion in the recent cinema [and] in the vital social issues surrounding Watergate, the Hollywood blacklist, and the renewed interest in Nazi Germany. Sarris dismantles many of the film industry's questionable attempts at ... View More...
