Background
Lewis Jacobs was born on April 22, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States.
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book
The Rise of the American film, a critical history.
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1939
The Rise of the American Film: A Critical History With an Essay- Experimental Cinema in America, 1921-1947 (Studies in Culture & Communication)
(Surveys the development of the American cinema as an art ...)
Surveys the development of the American cinema as an art form, technical achievement, and major industry from 1896 to World War II.
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1968
The Movies as Medium
(Essays by twenty-seven expert filmmakers, examine the tec...)
Essays by twenty-seven expert filmmakers, examine the techniques, fundamentals, and art of creating modern film experiences.
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1970
The Compound Cinema: The Film Writings of Harry Alan Potamkin (Studies in culture & communication)
(Harry Alan Potamkin was an active revolutionist, and crit...)
Harry Alan Potamkin was an active revolutionist, and critic who specialized in the cinema. During the 1920s and 30s, Potamkin was one of the most acute critics of the arts in America. In a period when the general run of Marxist criticism was shallow and immature, he was developing in his discussion of the moving picture a critical apparatus which was to be of inestimable value to the critics who were to come after him. Unfortunately, the character of the Left press at that time prevented him from being widely published as a poet. Had this not been the case he might have devoted himself more entirely to poetry. The promise that is apparent in his few published poems might have been fulfilled. However, Potamkin died in 1932 of an illness which was the direct result of semi-starvation. His funeral was a mass demonstration. Hundreds of the common people of New York attended to honor a spokesman whom they had loved and respected. Small-minded intellectuals who had accused him of obscurity, who had called him a metaphysician, who had said he was incomprehensible to the workers, were dumbfounded at his popularity.
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1977
The Documentary Tradition (Second Edition)
(Originally published in 1971, The Documentary Tradition i...)
Originally published in 1971, The Documentary Tradition is the essential survey of the development and achievements of one of the most distinctive and influential genres of film. Edited by the distinguished filmmaker and historian Lewis Jacobs, the book has become an indispensable reference for both students and practitioners of the documentary. The second edition traces the development of the genre from the 1920s to the 1970s. The section on the documentaries of the 1970s is introduced by his own survey of the filmmaking of the period, "From Political Activism to Women's Consciousness," and accompanied by a selected list of documentaries of the 1970s together with photographs from a number of these films. The bibliography of works on documentary films and filmmakers has been expanded.
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1979
Lewis Jacobs
Edit ProfileEducation
Jacobs attended art school in Philadelphia.
Career
In Lewis's early career, Jacobs was a screenwriter for Hollywood motion picture studios such as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia. In 1930, he also founded the magazine Experimental Cinema, which was one of the first publications to view the film as art. In 1950 he turned to filmmaking in New York City, working as director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer.
During Lewis's prolific career, he also founded the Experimental Cinema magazine, which was one of the first publications to view the film as art.
Lewis compiled other books, including The Movies as Medium, The Documentary Tradition: From Nanook to Woodstock, The Emergence of Film Art, and The Compound Cinema: The Film Writings of Harry Alan Potamkin. His later years were spent focusing on mixed-media collages for which he won numerous awards.
Achievements
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Jacobs was the first writer to create a study of the history of American film. First published in 1939, the volume was titled The Rise of the American Film and has appeared in numerous subsequent editions.
Jacobs also pioneered the study of film as a college course, teaching at schools such as City College of New York (now City College of the City University of New York), New School for Social Research, and others.
Lewis served as a Venice Film Festival juror, and was honored by New York’s Anthology Film Archives.
Works
book
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The Documentary Tradition (Second Edition)
(Originally published in 1971, The Documentary Tradition i...)
1979 -
The Rise of the American Film: A Critical History With an Essay- Experimental Cinema in America, 1921-1947 (Studies in Culture & Communication)
(Surveys the development of the American cinema as an art ...)
1968 -
The Movies as Medium
(Essays by twenty-seven expert filmmakers, examine the tec...)
1970 -
The Compound Cinema: The Film Writings of Harry Alan Potamkin (Studies in culture & communication)
(Harry Alan Potamkin was an active revolutionist, and crit...)
1977 - The Rise of the American film, a critical history. 1939
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The Documentary Tradition (Second Edition)
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Nationality
United States