Iris Barry and the Art of Film
by
Robert Sitton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Iris Barry (1895–1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the...