Cinemachines : an essay on media and method
/ Garrett Stewart.
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 2020.
- 194 p. : ill. ; 24 p.
Includes index
This book explores the cultural and mechanical contrivances that subtend the modernist invention and practice of cinema. This book ponders the place of authorial intention in making a movie: how and when does the author break through the technical/narrative framework that defines what movies are and can do. Important films and filmmakers are discussed