Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen's Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Now in its eighth edition, this landmark text continues to offer outstanding coverage of more than a century of thought and writing about the movies.
Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen's Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Now in its seventh edition, this landmark text continues to offer outstanding coverage of more than a century of thought and writing about the movies.
Arnheim, Rudolf 1904-2007 (Rudolf Julius Arnheim)OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born July 15, 1904, in Berlin, Germany; died of pneumonia, June 9, 2007, in Ann Arbor, MI. Psychologist, philosopher, educator, and writer. Source for information on Arnheim, Rudolf 1904-2007 (Rudolf Julius Arnheim): Contemporary Authors dictionary.
In this enlightening new volume in the AFI Film Readers series, an international group of leading scholars revisits Arnheim’s legacy for film and media studies. In fourteen essays, the contributors bring Arnheim’s later work on the visual arts to bear on film and media, while also reassessing the implications of his film theory to help refine our grasp of Film as Art and related texts.