Hugo Munsterberg on Film: the Photoplay: A Psychological Study and Other Writings

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- S(t)imulation of Mind: The Film Theory of Hugo Munsterberg -- The Photoplay: A Psychological Study -- Introduction -- I The Outer Development of the Moving Pictures -- 2 The Inner Development of the Moving Pictures -- Part I: The Psychology of the Photoplay -- 3 Depth and Movement -- 4 Attention -- 5 Memory and Imagination -- 6 Emotions -- Part II: The Aesthetics of the Photoplay -- 7 The Purpose of Art -- 8 The Means of the Various Arts -- 9 The Means of the Photoplay -- 10 The Demands or the Photoplay.;Hugo Münsterberg's The Photoplay (1916) is one of the first and most important early works of film theory. Münsterberg's work on the emerging art of cinema remains a key document for film scholars, but it has long been out of print. In this new edition, Allan Langdale provides a critical introduction to the seminal text and collects numerous hard-to-find writings on film by Münsterberg. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- S(t)imulation of Mind: The Film Theory of Hugo Munsterberg -- The Photoplay: A Psychological Study -- Introduction -- I The Outer Development of the Moving Pictures -- 2 The Inner Development of the Moving Pictures -- Part I: The Psychology of the Photoplay -- 3 Depth and Movement -- 4 Attention -- 5 Memory and Imagination -- 6 Emotions -- Part II: The Aesthetics of the Photoplay -- 7 The Purpose of Art -- 8 The Means of the Various Arts -- 9 The Means of the Photoplay -- 10 The Demands or the Photoplay. 11 The function of the Photoplay -- Additional Writings and Texts -- Margaret Münsterberg on The Photoplay -- Why We Go to the Movies -- Peril to Childhood in the Movies -- Interview with Hugo Münsterberg -- Speech on the Paramount Pictographs -- Index.