"Without doubt, it is the best study of cinema published in English for years." -Cinema "...a major achievement...drawing on the results of aesthetic inquiry-from Shaftesbury and Lessing to Jakobson and the formalists-in order to relate the cinema to wider areas of linguistic theory and theory of art." -Times Literary Supplement
- ISBN10 0253181410
- ISBN13 9780253181411
- Publish Date 22 January 1973 (first published January 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Edition New and Enlarged Edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 176
- Language English