standard. As far as possible they represent various types, directing styles,
and themes. One restriction on the selection of films was accepted in
order to make the book more useful in the classroom and for film clubs.
To ensure a practical correspondence between what the book discusses
and what is actually seen on the screen, we have selected films obtain-
able for the most part from one renting agent. There are several excellent
agencies; however, we elected to work with Janus Films. Not only is their
catalogue impressive and, as experience has shown us, their staff helpful
and dependable, but their prints are consistently clear and complete.

Readers of this volume will vary in experience of analyzing films and
familiarity with the vocabulary and techniques of film criticism. Rather
than take any foreknowledge for granted, we have included introductory
material in four early chapters: "Viewing a Film" and "Interpreting a
Film" (Part One), "The Language of Film" and "The Rhetoric of Film"
(Part Two). "The Language of Film" is a glossary of unusual comprehen-
siveness and detail of definition with frequent references to examples
found elsewhere in the text.

The last pages of Film and the Critical Eye provide a bibliography of
material on each film and its director and a biography and filmography
for the directors of those films examined in Part Three.

It is always a pleasure to acknowledge the assistance of those who
helped in preparing a book. Our thanks for advice and encouragement
are due to a number of our colleagues at The City College of The City
University of New York, but especially to Professors Saul N. Brody, James
J. Greene, Gerald Kauvar, Edward Quinn, and Robert K. Morris. Our
problems in viewing films would have multiplied without the generous
cooperation of Mr. John M. Poole of Janus Films and his two assistants,
Mr. Richard Evangelista and Mr. Peter Meyer. We are grateful to Mr.
D. Anthony English and Mr. J. Edward Neve, our editors at Macmillan,
for many things.

Of more private indebtedness, no bald statement would be sufficient.
Our dedication, however, speaks, if not volumes, at least a volume of ap-
preciation.

DENNIS DENITTO

WILLIAM HERMAN

CHAPTER 10. JEAN COCTEAU. Diary of a Film by Jean Cocteau, trans-
lated by Ronald Duncan. Excerpts reprinted by permission of Dobson
Books Limited. From Diary of a Film, 1950, Dobson Books Limited, Lon-
don, and Dover Publications Inc. (paper edition only), New York.

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