Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image

Highly intellectual pursuit of understanding the role of images in film Not for the unwary. A tough read but fruitful. Too much based on the Death instinct

its a very good book on films. its uptodate, integrating lots of knowledge of the new technologies that have affected - good and bad - the film media. the articles however could have been more integrated with one another.

A must have