The Art of the Moving Picture

By: Vachel Lindsay, Stanley Kauffman (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 1 March 1970 | Edition Number 1

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The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing, as a work of analysis and vision. Over fifty years ago Lindsay saw the hunger that still obsesses the film enthusiast. Sculpture-in-motion, painting-in-motion, architecture-in-motion are nuggets out of which he refines subtle perceptions.

Lindsay sees, in 1915, the revolution in human perception involved in the very existence of film. There is a clear prediction of McLuhan in "Edison is the new Gutenberg. He has invented the new printing." Lindsay sees, in 1915, the quintessence of the auteur theory of film criticism, formulated some forty years later: "An artistic photoplay . . . is not a factory-made staple article, but the product of the creative force of one soul, the flowering of a spirit that has the habit of perpetually renewing itself."

This book is a considerable marvel. Lindsay had a clear sense that a profound change was taking place, not only in cultural history but in all human histories-the external and also the most secret. And, poet and evangelist that he was, he saw some fundamental ways to understand and use the change. Francis Hackett concluded his review in 1915: "He has initiated photoplay criticism. That is a big thing to have done, and he has done it, to use his own style, with Action, Intimacy, and Friendliness, and Splendor."

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Introduction to Modern Library: The Movies	p. v
Introduction	p. vii
A Word from the Director of the Denver Art Association	p. xxi
The General Photoplay Situation in America, January 1, 1922, Especially as Viewed from the Heights of the Civic Centre at Denver, Colorado, and the Denver Art Museum, Which Is to Be a Leading Feature of This Civic Centre	p. 1
The Outline Which Has Been Accepted as the Basis of Photoplay Criticism in America, Both in the Studios of the Los Angeles Region, and All the Serious Criticism Which Has Appeared in the Daily Press and the Magazines	p. 19
The Point of View	p. 21
The Photoplay of Action	p. 25
The Intimate Photoplay	p. 30
The Motion Picture of Fairy Splendor	p. 38
The Picture of Crowd Splendor	p. 43
The Picture of Patriotic Splendor	p. 50
The Picture of Religious Splendor	p. 59
Sculpture-in-Motion	p. 65
Painting-in-Motion	p. 75
Furniture, Trappings, and Inventions in Motion	p. 84
Architecture-in-Motion	p. 95
Thirty Differences between the Photoplays and the Stage	p. 105
Hieroglyphics	p. 116
More Personal Speculations and Afterthoughts not Brought Forward so Dogmatically	p. 127
The Orchestra, Conversation, and the Censorship	p. 129
The Substitute for the Saloon	p. 139
California and America	p. 145
Progress and Endowment	p. 150
Architects as Crusaders	p. 161
On Coming Forth by Day	p. 166
The Prophet-Wizard	p. 171
The Acceptable Year of the Lord	p. 180
Appendix	p. 189
Index	p. 195
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