Hugo Munsterberg on Film: The Photoplay: A Psychological Study and Other Writings,9780415937061

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

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415937061
ISBN10: 041593706X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-21
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Hugo Munsterberg'sThe 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 Munsterberg. Munsterberg 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 Munsterberg on Filmwill be of great interest not only to film theorists and historians, but also those interested in the history of psychology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v
Editor's Introduction S(t)imulation of Mind: The Film Theory of Hugo Munsterberg 1(44)
Allan Langdale
The Photoplay: A Psychological Study
Introduction
The Outer Development of the Moving Pictures
45(9)
The Inner Development of the Moving Pictures
54(10)
Part I: The Psychology of the Photoplay
Depth and Movement
64(15)
Attention
79(10)
Memory and Imagination
89(10)
Emotions
99(10)
Part II: The Aesthetics of the Photoplay
The Purpose of Art
109(11)
The Means of the Various Arts
120(8)
The Means of the Photoplay
128(11)
The Demands of the Photoplay
139(12)
The Function of the Photoplay
151(56)
Additional Writings and Texts
Margaret Munsterberg on The Photoplay
165(6)
Why We Go to the Movies
171(20)
Hugo Munsterberg
Peril to Childhood in the Movies
191(10)
Hugo Munsterberg
Interview with Hugo Munsterberg
201(3)
Speech on the Paramount Pictographs
204(3)
Index 207

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