Film and the Arts in Symbiosis A Resource Guide

Subjects:

• Popular Culture » Film Studies

Reviews:

• 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

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction by Gary R. Edgerton
• Film and Painting by Martin Norden
• Film and Photography by Charles Berg
• Film and the Graphic Arts by Richard Shale
• Film and Literature by Carolyn Anderson
• Film and Theater by Gregory Waller
• Film and Classical Music by Royal Brown
• Film and Popular Music by Gary Burns
• Film and Radio by Gary R. Edgerton
• Film and Television by William Lafferty
• Film and Video Art by Edward Amall
• Film and the New Media by Bruce Austin
• Film Index
• Subject Index