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Article: Corrigan, Timothy and Patricia White. The Film Experience: An Introduction.(Book review)
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- Communication Research Trends
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- March 1, 2008
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Corrigan, Timothy and Patricia White. The Film Experience: An Introduction. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins. 2004. Pp. vii, 547. ISBN 0-312-25566-7 (pb.) $71.25.
While the jazz-age public marveled at the first talking-pictures, a film critic in Berlin warned that sound was an ominous first step toward a "complete" replication of reality that would debase film as an art form. "Film is on its way to the victory of wax museum ideals over creative art," wrote Rudolf Arnheim, who would achieve greater renown as a perceptual psychologist than a film theorist.
Arnheim, who championed "visual thinking" as a discrete mode, argued that black-and-white silent film ...