Film as film : understanding and judging movies

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Film as film : understanding and judging movies

V.F. Perkins

(Penguin books)

Penguin Books, 1991 printing

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Film as film : a superb introduction to appreciation and criticism of the cinema

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Originally published by the Penguin group in Pelican Books 1972

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Film making is inevitably based on collaboration and often bogged down by compromise, yet the achievements of the great directors leave no doubt that the cinema is a supreme art form of the 20th century. Detailed analyses of scenes from well-known films, many of them Hollywood classics like "Psycho", show how film makers can tell a story and interpret the events at one and the same time. It is only when we understand the dual role of the camera as a ruthlessly realistic eye and creator of illusions that rational film criticism becomes possible.

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