Film As Film
Publisher: Gannon Distributing Co
Published: January 2000
Format: Textbook Binding
ISBN-13: 9780883074237
First sentence: In 1911 William DeMille, who later became a prominent film , described the movies as 'galloping tintypes [which] no one can expect...to develop into anything which could, by the wildest stretch of the imagination, be called art' Twenty-two years later the theorist Rudolph Arnheim noted: 'There are still many educated people who stoutly deny the possibility that film might be art.