Hugo Munsterberg on Film: The Photoplay: A Psychological Study and Other Writings
by: Hugo Münsterberg and Allan Langdale
Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (17 Jan. 2002)
Language: English
Hardcover: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 041593706X
ISBN-13: 9780415937061
Book Description
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.
Table of contents:
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.
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