NI57721 on Nostr: Sounds good! The Japanese edition seems to be based on the second edition (1981), and ...

Sounds good! The Japanese edition seems to be based on the second edition (1981), and it has neither the fifth nor the seventh section as you can see below. Anyway, I'm going to start with the first section.

# index

1. Film as an Art
2. Technology: Image and Sound
3. The Language of Film: Signs and Syntax
4. The Shape of Film History
5. (omitted) Film Theory: Form and Function
6. Media: In the Middle of Things
7. (added in the fourth edition) Multimedia: The Digital Revolution
8. appendices
- (omitted) chronology
- terminology
- references