A short history of a short history of the movies
Gerald Mast. A Short History of the Movies, third edition. Indianapolis: Bobbs‐Merrill, 1981. 499 pp.
Plusieurs Eisensteins: Recent criticism
Dominique Fernandez. Eisenstein. Paris: Grasset, 1975.
Jacques Aumont. Montage Eisenstein. Paris: Editions Albatros, 1979.
Herbert Marshall, ed. The Battleship Potemkin. New York: Avon, 1978.
Octobre: découpage intégral. Paris:Seuil/Avant‐Scène, 1971.
Octobre: continuité photogrammatique intégrale. Paris: Cinémathèque Universitaire, 1980.
Michèle Lagny, Marie‐Claire Ropars‐Wuilleumier and Pierre Sorlin, La révolution figurée: film, histoire, politique. Paris: Editions Albatros, 1979.
Fall to grace
Tom Dardis. Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down. New York: Penguin Books, 1980. 340 pp. $4.95.
Durgnat on Buñuel: With lucidity and grace
Raymond Durgnat. Luis Buñuel. New Revised and Enlarged Edition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978. 176 pp. $4.95, paper.
The romance of American film criticism
David Denby, ed. Awake in the Dark: An Anthology of American Film Criticism, 1915 to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1977. 395 pp. $4.95, paper.
Pauline Kael. When the Lights Go Down. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1980. 592 pp. $9.95, paper.
Stanley Kauffmann. Before My Eyes. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. 464 pp. $16.95, cloth.
Theoretical changes
Screen Reader I: Cinema/Ideology/Politics. London: The Society for Education in Film and Television, 1977.