----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >""In my research on silent cinema I found very little written on the >subject of movement (objects within the frame, camera, movement created >by editing etc.) in Western scholarship. Closely connected issues of >tempo and rhythm also received little attention. My problem is mainly >methodological: How does one account for movement, tempo and rhythm in >the analysis of film style?"" > >Try Bela Balazs' "Theory of The Film" and "The Close-up and The Face of Man", >Mearleau-Ponty's "Cinema and The New Psychology", and some essays by Hugo >Munsterberg's "Photoplay: a Psychologycal Study". > >Regards, > >- Claudio Fernandes - [log in to unmask] > > * * * Claudio, There is a nice article on movement in Oct.1994 Sight & Sound by Richard Dryer. It is focused on the film "Speed". As a nice counterpoint to the Dryer article is one by Simon Louvish on Speed & the Silents, in the same issue. Stephen Stephen O'Riordan Film/Video Archives Media Center, UCSD 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093-0504 Tel: 619/534-7981 Fax: 619/534-7180 [log in to unmask]