Author: Shaw, Bernard
Title: Bernard Shaw on Cinema.
Description: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. Paperback. 224 pp.-With his customary wit and quite often with remarkable prescience, Bernard Shaw maintained a dialogue on cinema that ran almost from the infancy of the industry in 1908 until his death in 1950. Bernard F. Dukore presents the first collection of Bernard Shaw's writings and oral statements about cinema. Of the more than one hundred comments Dukore has selected, fifty-nine-more than half-are new to today's readers. Twelve are previously unpublished, one is published in full for the first time, and forty-six appear in a collected edition of Shaw's writings for the first time since their publication in newspapers and magazines. Very early in the life of cinema, Shaw perceived that as an invention, movies would be more momentous than the printing press because they appealed to the illiterate as well as the literate, to the manual laborer at the end of an exhausting day as well as to the person with more leisure. He predicted that cinema would form people's minds and shape their conduct. He recognized that cinema's colossal proportions make mediocrity compulsory by leveling art and life down to the blandest morality and to the lowest common denominator of potential audiences throughout the world. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780809321551.

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