bordwell's On the History of FIlm Style does a good job on this issue
ken harrow

At 02:42 PM 12/28/2005, Richard Butsch wrote:
>Can anyone recommend any publication (book chapter, article, etc) to 
>assign to my students on the movement (in or out of academia) to define 
>film as an art/literature, to substitute the term film for movies and 
>motion pictures, and to canonize certain films as art/literature.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Richard Butsch
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Kenneth W. Harrow
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