FILM
Cinema is a strange art, probably the strangest ever developed by man. Although conceived in the 19th Century, cinema as art is unique to the Twentieth—the only art developed within contemporary times. Cinema is one of the few exclusively technological arts: i.e., cinema could not exist without tools and machines (I can think of only two other exclusively technological art forms—painting and culpture).
FILM
James L. Jones
Cinema is a strange art, probably the strangest ever developed by man. Although conceived in the 19th Century, cinema as art is unique to the Twentieth—the only art developed within contemporary times. Cinema is one of the few exclusively technological arts: i.e., cinema could not exist without tools and machines (I can think of only two other exclusively technological art forms—painting and culpture). And lastly; cinema art is a combination of numerous other arts: the art of the director, the art of the editor, the art of the cinematographer, the art of the writer, the art of the actor, etc.
like the term “literature,” “cinema” may be broken down into categorical labels to describe various kinds of cinema. In literature, there is the poem, the fictional narrative, and the non-fictional essay. In cinema, there is the film, the movie, and the documentary. Although most critics ^can distinguish a documentary, I find few critics (indeed, only two—Judith Christ and ' Susan .Stark) who - can distinguish between a film and a movie. It’s disappointing to me to find critics dismissing, say, “2001” as a “boring movie” and hailing “Bonnie and Clyde” as a “great film.”'