
Dudley Andrew
Contributor
R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature, Yale University. Author of Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film and others.
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Film, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. A popular form of mass media, film is a remarkably…
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