Hugo Munsterberg on film : The photoplay : a psychological study, and other writings

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- S(t)imulation of Mind: The Film Theory of Hugo Munsterberg -- The Photoplay: A Psychological Study -- Introduction -- I The Outer Development of the Moving Pictures -- 2 The Inner Development of the Moving Pictures -- Part I: The Psychology of the Photoplay -- 3 Depth and Movement -- 4 Attention -- 5 Memory and Imagination -- 6 Emotions -- Part II: The Aesthetics of the Photoplay -- 7 The Purpose of Art -- 8 The Means of the Various Arts -- 9 The Means of the Photoplay -- 10 The Demands or the Photoplay.;Hugo Münsterberg's The Photoplay (1916) is one of the first and most important early works of film theory. Münsterberg's work on the emerging art of cinema remains a key document for film scholars, but it has long been out of print. In this new edition, Allan Langdale provides a critical introduction to the seminal text and collects numerous hard-to-find writings on film by Münsterberg. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- S(t)imulation of Mind: The Film Theory of Hugo Munsterberg -- The Photoplay: A Psychological Study -- Introduction -- I The Outer Development of the Moving Pictures -- 2 The Inner Development of the Moving Pictures -- Part I: The Psychology of the Photoplay -- 3 Depth and Movement -- 4 Attention -- 5 Memory and Imagination -- 6 Emotions -- Part II: The Aesthetics of the Photoplay -- 7 The Purpose of Art -- 8 The Means of the Various Arts -- 9 The Means of the Photoplay -- 10 The Demands or the Photoplay. 11 The function of the Photoplay -- Additional Writings and Texts -- Margaret Münsterberg on The Photoplay -- Why We Go to the Movies -- Peril to Childhood in the Movies -- Interview with Hugo Münsterberg -- Speech on the Paramount Pictographs -- Index. Hugo Münsterberg's The Photoplay (1916) is regarded as the first serious work of film theory. In this new edition, Allan Langdale provides a critical introduction and collects numerous hard-to-find writings on film by Münsterberg. Münsterberg argues that film is a unique medium because it speaks the language of the mind. For example, he equates the close-up with the act of attention and the flashback with the act of memory. His writings are fascinating accounts of the psychological elements of film and provide valuable insight into the reception of film as art at the beginning of the century. Hugo Münsterberg on Film will be of great interest not only to film theorists and historians, but also those interested in the history of psychology This Book Examines Reactions To The Russian Revolution By Four Little Magazines Of The Teens And Twenties (the Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, And The Dial) In Order To Analyze Some Of The Ways Modernist Writers Negotiate The Competing Demands Of Aesthetics, Political Commitment And Race. Re-examining Interconnections Among Such Superficially Disparate Phenomena As The Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village Bohemianism, Modernism And Leftist Politics, This Book Rightly Emphasizes The Vitality Of Little Magazines And Argues For Their Necessary Place In The Study Of Modernism.