Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
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
Synopsis
"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
Synopsis
"This is a unique and valuable anthology, providing well-written and well-edited essays that may well be used as course readings." RQ
About the Author
GARY R. EDGERTON is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Communications Department at Goucher College.
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