Ebook: Cinema 16: Documents Toward History Of Film Society

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; An Interview with Amos Vogel; An Interview with Marcia Vogel; An Interview with Jack Goelman; The Documents; Index.;As the most successful and influential film society in American history, Cinema 16 was a crucial organization for the creation of a public space for the full range of cinema achievement in the years following World War II. A precursor of the New York Film Festival, Cinema 16 screenings became a gathering place for New Yorkers interested not only in cinema, but in the use of media in the development of a more complete, effective democracy. For seventeen years, many of the leading intellectuals and artists of the time came together as part of a membership society of thousands to experience the c.