Pictorial Beauty on the Screen

Pictorial Beauty on the Screen

If I look upon a motion picture as a kind of substitute for some stage play or novel, it seems to me a poor thing, only a substitute for something better; but if I look upon it as something real in itself, a new form of pictorial art in which things have somehow been conjured into significant motion, then I get many a glimpse of touching beauty, and I always see a great range of possibilities for richer beauties in future examples of this new art. Then I see the motion picture as the equal of any of the elder arts. In other words, I enjoy the movies as pictures, and I do not enjoy them as anything else but pictures. Yet it is on the pictorial side that the movies are now in greatest need of improvement. And this need will probably continue for at least another ten years. I feel that a book such as this may prove to be of considerable help in bringing about that improvement. So far as I know, this is the first book in which a systematic analysis of pictorial composition on the screen has been attempted, although there are certain earlier books in which the pictorial art of the screen has been appraised without analysis, the pioneer work in that class being Vachel Lindsays Art of the Moving Picture. The most original things in my present volume are to be found in the chapters on Pictorial Motionsor, at least, they ought to be there, elsex I am to blame, because that is the phase of cinematic art which has hitherto received the least attention from critics. Movie fans in general are my audience, my hope being that they may find something new in this discussion, something, here and there, which they had not themselves thought of, but which will help them toward a conscious and keen enjoyment of beauty scarcely observed before, and to a more certain discrimination between genuine art on the screen and mere pretentious imitations of art. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66049
Author: Freeburg, Victor Oscar
Release Date: Aug 12, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English