A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Early treatises and theories on film (to 1950)
Agate, James. Around Cinemas. London, 1948.
Arnheim, Rudolf. Film als Kunst. Berlin, 1932.
_____. Film as Art. Berkeley: U of California P, 1957.
_____. (Rudolph Arnheim). Film as Art. London, 1958.
_____. From Film as Art. ("The Complete Film"). 1933. In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 212-15.*
_____. From Film as Art ("Film and Reality"). 1933. In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 312-21. (Film and perception).
Astruc, Alexandre. "Naissance d'une nouvelle avant-garde: la caméra-stylo." Ecran français 144 (30 March 1948).
Balázs, Béla. Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art. London, 1952. 1953.
_____. From Theory of Film ("The Close-up"). 1945. In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 304-11. (Face, perception, lyricism, gesture).
Blumer, Herbert. Movies and Conduct. Ayer Co., 1933.
Brinton, Joseph P. "Subjective Camera or Subjective Audience?" Hollywood Quarterly 2 (July 1947): 359-65.
Cabello, Alfredo. El libro del cine. Madrid: Dédalo, 1933.
Eikhenbaum, Boris. "Problems of Film Stylistics." From Poetika Kino. 1927. Screen 15 (Autumn 1974).
Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Form. Ed. and trans. Jay Leyda. New York: Harcourt, 1949. 1977.
_____. The Film Sense. 1942. London, 1943.
_____. The Film Sense. Trans. Jay Leyda. New York: Harcourt, 1947. 1975.
Elliott, Eric. Anatomy of Motion Picture. London, 1928.
Faure, Elie. The Art of Cineplastics. Trans. Walter Pach. Boston, 1923.
Gance, Abel. "Le Temps de l'image est venu." L'Art cinématographique 2 (Paris, 1927).
Huntley, John. British Film Music. 1948. New York, 1972.
Jakobson, Roman. "Úpadek filmu?" Listy pro um¢ni a kritiku 1 (1933): 45-59.
_____. "Is the Cinema in Decline?" Trans. E. Sokol. In Jakobson, Studies in Verbal Art. Ann Arbor, 1971. 150-56.
_____. "Is the Cinema in Decline?" In Semiotics of Art: Prague School Contributions. Ed. Ladislav Matejka and Irwin R. Titunik. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 1976. 146-52.
Kracauer, S. From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1947.
Kuleshov. Kuleshov on Film. Ed. I. Levaco. London, 1974.
Lightman, Herb A. "The Technique of the Documentary Film." American Cinematographer 26 (November 1945): 371-, 378, 402.
Lindgren, Ernest. The Art of the Film. London, 1950.
Lindsay, Vachel. The Art of the Moving Picture. New York, 1922.
Lukács, Georg. "Gedanken zu einer Ästhetik des Kinos." 1913. In Schriften zur Literatursoziologie. Ed. P. Lutz. 2nd ed. Neuwied, 1963.
Mann, Thomas. "Ueber den Film." In Mann, Die Forderung des Tages. Berlin, 1930.
Münsterberg, Hugo. The Film: A Psychological Study: The Silent Photoplay in 1916. New York: Dover, 1970.
_____. "The Means of the Photoplay." In Film Theory and Criticism. Ed. Gerald Mast and Marshal Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1979. 239-48.
Panofsky, Erwin. "Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures." 1934, rev. 1947. In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 279-292.*
_____. "El cine como estilo y como medio." 1934. Trans. in Cuadernos de la Gaya Ciencia 3 (1976): 73-98.*
Pierre-Quint, Léon. "Signification du cinéma." L'Art cinématographique 2 (1927).
Pudovkin, Vsevolod I. Film Technique. 1926.
_____. Filmregie und Filmmanuskript. Berlin, 1928.
_____. Film Technique and Film Acting. London, 1974.
Shklovski, V., et al. Poetika kino. Moscú: Kinoizdat, 1927.
Tynianov, Iuri. "Ob osnovaj kino." In V. Shklovski et al., Poetika kino. Moscow: Kinoizdat, 1927. 53-85.
