Film and the Arts in Symbiosis A Resource Guide

Film and the Arts in Symbiosis is an interesting collection of readable essays written by film scholars and teachers. Each essay is accompanied by a set of footnotes, a bibliography, and a filmography. The essays cover the relationship between film and painting, photography, graphic arts, literature, theater, classical and popular music, radio, television, video art, and the `new media'. . . . This is a unique and valuable anthology, providing well-written and well-edited essays that may well be used as course readings. RQ This unusual resource guide and handbook examines the key relationships and abundant interconnections between motion pictures and eleven other traditional or communication arts. For the first time, the work of scholars who have studied or taught in fields as diverse as broadcasting, art, music, photography, and popular culture is pulled together for ready access in one volume. Film and the Arts in Symbiosis, takes an exploratory, yet systematic look at the interdisciplinary nature of the film medium and both highlights and enthusiastically endorses that multi-faceted tradition.