Foreword: Rudolf Arnheim in Retrospect, Dudley Andrew
Introduction, Scott Higgins
1. Rudolf Arnheim: Clarity, Simplicity, Balance, David Bordwell
2. Arnheim and Modernism, Malcolm Turvey
3. Rudolf Arnheim’s Early Passage between Social and Aesthetic Film Criticism,
Eric Rentschler
4. Screening Out Sound: Arnheim and Cinema’s Silence, Nora M. Alter
5. A Gestalt Approach to Film Analysis, Meraj Dhir
6. Deft Trajectories for the Eye: Bringing Arnheim to Vincente Minnelli’s Color Design, Scott Higgins
7. Perfecting the Complete Cinema: Rudolf Arnheim and the Digital Intermediates, Jinhee Choi
8. Art, Accident, and the Interpretation of the Modern World, Patrick Keating
9. Visual Thinking of the Avant-Garde Film, Maureen Turim
10. Arnheim on Radio: Materialtheorie and Beyond, Shawn VanCour
11. Television from Afar: Arnheim’s Understanding of Media, Doron Galili
12. Arnheim and Comics, Greg M. Smith
13. Arnheim on Style History, Colin Burnett
14. Arnheim on the Ontology of the Photographic Image, Vincent Bohlinger
Notes on Contributors
Biography
Scott Higgins
"...this volume is a bracing and engaging read, swiftly moving from one film to the next, and one aspect of the cinema to another, to give a comprehensive overview of Arnheim's continuing impact on film criticism." - CHOICE, April 2011
