The Saturday Review Archives The Saturday Review • 61 Years,
2,646 Issues,
86,190 Articles,
131,463pp

The Flood of Film Books
The Liveliest Art, by Arthur Knight
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Reviewed Books and Films
The Liveliest Art (1957)Arthur Knight
A Panoramic History of the Movies
3 Reviews, 2 Readable

Film as Art (1957)Rudolf Arnheim
2 Reviews, 1 Readable

A Grammar of the Film (1950)Raymond Spottiswoode
An Analysis of Film Technique
2 Reviews, 2 Readable

Sergei M. Eisenstein (1952)Marie Seton
A Biography
6 Reviews, 3 Readable

Film Form (1949)Sergei Eisenstein and Jay Leyda
Essays in Film Theory
6 Reviews, 3 Readable

The Film Sense (1942)Sergei Eisenstein
4 Reviews, 2 Readable

Film Technique and Film Acting (1949)V.I. Pudovkin
3 Reviews, 2 Readable

From Caligari to Hitler (1947)Siegfried Kracauer
A Psychological History of the German Film
6 Reviews, 1 Readable

The Japanese Film (1959)Joseph L. Anderson and Donald Richie
Art and Industry
3 Reviews, 2 Readable

Introduction to the Art of the Movies (1960)Lewis Jacobs
An Anthology of Ideas on the Nature of Movie Art
1 Review, 1 Readable

The Stars (1960)Edgar Morin
An Account of the Star-System in Motion Pictures
1 Review, 1 Readable

Film, Book I (1959)Robert Hughes
The Audience and the Film-Maker
1 Review, 1 Readable