Film as Film
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: January 31, 1991
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780140135107
Subjects: Film theory & criticism
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.