On the history of film style - Bordwell, David (Cambridge, Massachusettes Harvard University Press, 1997)
The way movies look: the significance of stylistic history -- Defending and defining the seventh art: the standard version of stylistic history -- Against the seventh art: André Bazin and the dialectical program -- The return of modernism: Noël Burch and the oppositional program -- Prospects for progress: recent research programs -- Exceptionally exact perceptions: on staging in depth.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-314) and index.
Also issued online.
Keywords: Motion pictures -- Aesthetics; Motion pictures -- Historiography