Research Catalog

Title

Film essays and criticism / Rudolf Arnheim ; translated by Brenda Benthien.

Author

Arnheim, Rudolf.

Publication

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Details

Description

x, 253 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Wisconsin studies in film

Uniform Title

• Kritiken und Aufsätze zum Film. English
• Wisconsin studies in film.

Alternative Title

Kritiken und Aufsätze zum Film.

Subject

• Motion pictures

Note

• Translation of: Kritiken und Aufsätze zum Film.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Elements of Theory and Technique. The Sad Future of Film (1930). For the First Time (1931). Film and Radio (1933). Remarks on Color Film (1935). Art Today and Film (1965) -- 2. Sound Film. Sound Film (1928). Sound Film Confusion (1929). The Singing Fool (1929). Atlantic (1929). Sound Film by Force (1931). Sound Film Gone Astray (1932). Philosophy of the Aha (1933). Sounds in the Left Hand (1933). Asynchronism (1934) -- 3. Production. In Praise of Character Actors (1931). Heroes for the Heart (1932). Lighting (1934). Who Is the Author of a Film? (1934) -- 4. Contents and Styles. Style and Monotony in Film (1931). Death in Film (1932). Where Does Art Begin? (1933). Style (1934). Epic and Dramatic Film (1934). Symbols (1934). Expressionist Film (1934). Painting and Film (1934) -- 5. Film and the State. Film and Its Stepmother (1929). Kuhle Wampe (1932). Censorship without Scruples (1932). So-Called Freedom (1932) -- 6. Toward a Theory of Film Criticism.
• Note (1927). Professional Film Criticism (1929). The Film Critic of Tomorrow (1935) -- 7. Stachelschwein Reviews (1925 to 1928). Dr. Caligari Redivivus (1925). Buster Keaton as Sherlock Holmes, Jr. (1925). The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Emil Jannings: Variety (1926). Metropolis (1927). The Elisabeth Bergner Film "Love" (Liebe) (1927). Pudovkin's Mother (1927). Buster Keaton's General (1927). "The Weavers" (Die Weber) (1927). Lecture on the Napoleon Film (1927). Circus (1928). The End of St. Petersburg, Plus Peripheral Comments and Side-Glances (1928). Spies (1928). Erich von Stroheim in the Kamera (1928) -- 8. Weltbuhne Reviews (1928 to 1933). Accusations against a Good Film (1928). Lotte Reiniger's Silhouette Films (1928). Greeks and Mongols (1929). Old Chaplin Films (1929). Silent Beauty and Noisy Nonsense (1929). By Rocket to the Moon (1929). Tauber Sound and Studio (1930). Ermler and Eisenstein (1930). Chaplin, Now as Then (1931). Garbo and Gassenhauer (1931).
• Granowsky Experiments (1931). Cinema Rondo (1931). Tabu (1931). The Russians Are Playing (1931). Morocco (1931). Partly Expensive, Partly Good (1931). Dishonored (X27) (1932). French Film (1932). Answer (1932). Josef von Sternberg Cables (1932). Shanghai Express (1932). Escape into the Scenery (1932). Rapprochement in Oil (1932). Two Kinds of Rebels (1933). Film Report (1933). The Anthem of Leuthen (1933) -- 9. Reviews after 1933. The Man of Aran (1934). Our Daily Bread (1935). Lost Horizon (1937). Sweet Girl and Film Art (1939). Anti-Fascist Satire (1940) -- 10. Portraits. Greta Garbo (1928). Grete Mosheim (1931). Rudolf Forster (1931). Albert Prejean (1931). Hans Albers (1931). Felix Bressart (1931). Chaplin as Teacher (1932). Erich von Stroheim (1934). To Maya Deren (1962). Complete Bibliography of Writings on Film by Rudolf Arnheim / Helmut H. Diederichs.

ISBN

• 029915260X (alk. paper)
• 0299152642 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

96035969

OCLC

• 35360596
• ocm35360596

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries