----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Bohdan: I believe you should check out Noel Burch's _The Theory and Practice of Film_ 1972. This book is essential for describing temporal and spatial articulation. Burch is also a noted scholar in the primative cinema and has made two films the critically discuss the primative cinema: _Correction Please_, and _What Do These Old Films Mean?_. I believe both are available from the Modern Museum Of Art, in New York City. Bart Testa has written a book that deals with these Issues as well: _Back and Forth: The Advant-Garde and the Primative Cinema_, University of Toronto Press, 1993. Further suggested readings include _Before the Nickelodeon_. --------------------------------------------------- Joey Schwartz, Innis College Media Supervisor University of Toronto | Tel. (416) 966-0593 2 Sussex Avenue | [log in to unmask] Toronto, Ontario | [log in to unmask] M5S-1A5, Canada | Tel. (416) 978-0591 (Day) ----------------------------------------------------