Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to d

Fascinating documentation of one of the most important film societies in American history.

Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delac

This is an analysis of what has been called the seventh art. It traces the development of film from its scientific origins through to cinema today, covering the

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and