The Art of the Moving Picture (Modern Library Movies)

In the field of film aesthetics it is the first important American work still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing.--Stanley Kauffmann. Written in 1915 The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business the prominence of technology and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.