The Cinema as Art by Ralph Stephenson & J.R. Debrix [FIRST EDITION U.K. PAPERBACK] 1967 • Penguin

The Cinema as Art by Ralph Stephenson & J.R. Debrix

FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK [1967] PENGUIN BOOKS

2nd Printing / 1967.

Vintage paperback with 54 illustrated plates, in very good reading condition.

Cover shows visible wear; read-creasing to spine. 

Binding is tight. 

Interior pages are clean, unmarked and read good as new with some inevitable tanning.

"The Cinema as Art', to those brought up on the 'movie show and bubble gum' image, must look like a pretentious contradiction in terms.

The Cinema as Art provides an able and professional analysis of the camera as the director's paintbrush: discussing cinematic techniques used by international directors to produce the effects of fantasy, symbolism, and surrealism  

As this book demonstrates, however, the cinema stands for an art form which is almost unique in immediacy and scope. The authors explain, with over 300 examples taken from films of every country and period, the stages by which a director isolates what is mehtally and emotionally significant in a situation.