«My purpose is to illustrate the history of cinema much more than its actuality (...), to try to define as precisely as possible the origin and the first use of this or that effect of the visual and sound language, and to give selected examples of the classics of cinematography ».
Marcel Martin analyzes with great rigor the most important films explaining all those components that have turned them into imperishable works of art. Many of these classics can be considered today as valuable as the Iliad, the Sistine Chapel or the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven.
With his fine attention to the work of the camera, the sets and the creation of different modalities of spaces and times to highlight the logic of the narrative, the author enriches the aesthetic theories of cinema with the dimension and concepts of cinematographic semiotics.
The work is aimed especially at students ...read more
