Film and the Arts in Symbiosis: A Resource Guide

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Film and the Arts in Symbiosis is an interesting collection of readable essays written by film scholars and teachers. Each essay is accompanied by a set of footnotes, a bibliography, and a filmography. The essays cover the relationship between film and painting, photography, graphic arts, literature, theater, classical and popular music, radio, television, video art, and the `new media'. . . . This is a unique and valuable anthology, providing well-written and well-edited essays that may well be used as course readings. RQ

This unusual resource guide and handbook examines the key relationships and abundant interconnections between motion pictures and eleven other traditional or communication arts. For the first time, the work of scholars who have studied or taught in fields as diverse as broadcasting, art, music, photography, and popular culture is pulled together for ready access in one volume. Film and the Arts in Symbiosis, takes an exploratory, yet systematic look at the interdisciplinary nature of the film medium and both highlights and enthusiastically endorses that multi-faceted tradition.

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Film and the Arts in Symbiosis is an interesting collection of readable essays written by film scholars and teachers. Each essay is accompanied by a set of footnotes, a bibliography, and a filmography. The essays cover the relationship between film and painting, photography, graphic arts, literature, theater, classical and popular music, radio, television, video art, and the new media'. . . . This is a unique and valuable anthology, providing well-written and well-edited essays that may well be used as course readings.-RQ
This book documents and analyzes the interaction between film and various media including painting, literature, radio, and theater. The 11 essays span the period from the earliest days of film to recent multimedia productions. They are carefully written and provide an overview of the development of film, its borrowings from other media, and its influence on other media. . . Each of the essays reveals considerable knowledge of both the film and the particular art under discussion. The essays cover a great deal of material and are rather densely written. A very useful bibliography and filmography follow each essay, and the book concludes with a thorough film index and subject index. Suitable for casual reading.-Choice
This resource handbook examines the symbiotic relations between film and eleven important traditional and communicaton arts: painting, photography, graphic arts, literature, theater, classical music, popular music, radio, television, video art, and new media. . . .this collection is a solid resource on the growing syngerism taking place in the media arts. . . . The filmography again is very good.-Popular Music and Society
"Film and the Arts in Symbiosis is an interesting collection of readable essays written by film scholars and teachers. Each essay is accompanied by a set of footnotes, a bibliography, and a filmography. The essays cover the relationship between film and painting, photography, graphic arts, literature, theater, classical and popular music, radio, television, video art, and the new media'. . . . This is a unique and valuable anthology, providing well-written and well-edited essays that may well be used as course readings."-RQ
"This resource handbook examines the symbiotic relations between film and eleven important traditional and communicaton arts: painting, photography, graphic arts, literature, theater, classical music, popular music, radio, television, video art, and new media. . . .this collection is a solid resource on the growing syngerism taking place in the media arts. . . . The filmography again is very good."-Popular Music and Society
"This book documents and analyzes the interaction between film and various media including painting, literature, radio, and theater. The 11 essays span the period from the earliest days of film to recent multimedia productions. They are carefully written and provide an overview of the development of film, its borrowings from other media, and its influence on other media. . . Each of the essays reveals considerable knowledge of both the film and the particular art under discussion. The essays cover a great deal of material and are rather densely written. A very useful bibliography and filmography follow each essay, and the book concludes with a thorough film index and subject index. Suitable for casual reading."-Choice

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GARY R. EDGERTON is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Communications Department at Goucher College.