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Hugo Munsterberg on Film The Photoplay: a Psychological Study and Other Writings

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ISBN-10: 0415937078

ISBN-13: 9780415937078

Edition: 2002

Authors: Hugo M�nsterberg, Allan Langdale

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Hugo Munsterberg's The Photoplay, is one of the first and most important early works of film theory. In this edition, Allan Langdale provides a critical introduction to the seminal text and collects numerous hard-to-find writings by Munsterberg.
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Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/21/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Joseph A. Conforti is director of the American and New England studies program at the University of Southern Maine. He is author of "Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry and Reform in New England between the Great Awakenings".Langdale teaches in the Film Studies department at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Art History department of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction: S(t)imulation of Mind: The Film Theory of Hugo Munsterberg
Introduction
The Outer Development of the Moving Pictures
The Inner Development of the Moving Pictures
The Psychology of the Photoplay
Depth and Movement
Attention
Memory and Imagination
Emotions
The Aesthetics of the Photoplay
The Purpose of Art
The Means of the Various Arts
The Means of the Photoplay
The Demands of the Photoplay
The Function of the Photoplay
Additional Writings and Texts
Margaret Munsterberg on The Photoplay
Why We Go to the Movies
Peril to Childhood in the Movies
Interview with Hugo Munsterberg
Speech on the Paramount Pictographs
Index