Dixon & Foster — A Short History of Film

Dixon & Foster, A Short History of Film (Rutgers University Press).

Good for

Not yet written up. The measured coverage below says what this book is dense on; the judgement about when to reach for it is still to come.

In the library

Held in Reel, the local research library of scanned and indexed film books. 14 parts, 1,394 indexed passages. Page numbering is auto-checked.

Cite passages from this book as shf <page> — for example shf 214.

Strongest on

Measured, not guessed. Each figure is how much denser this book is on a concept than the library average — so common words don't crowd out real specialisms.

• Colour — 1.9× the library average (46 passages)
• Lighting — 1.7× the library average (95 passages)
• Setting — 1.7× the library average (270 passages)
• Audio — 1.6× the library average (123 passages)
• Point of view — 1.5× the library average (82 passages)