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Preface. About the Author. 1. The Mass Media. 2. Basic Elements of Production. 3. Format and Style. 4. Commercials and Announcements. 5. News and Sports. 6. Features and Documentaries. 7. Interviews and Talk Programs. 8. Music, Variety, and Comedy. 9. Corporate, Educational, and Children's Programs. 10. The Play. 11. Professional Opportunities. Index.
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Jared Boyce
reviewed Writing for Television, Radio, and New Media on October 13, 2016
Writing for Television, Radio, and New Media
This is the first truly formal study of film, which results with a thorough examination of how shooting practices, editing, especially cutting, etc. changed throughout history, but Salt is so bitterly positivist in his approach that it is obsolete.
His main motivation to write the book in the first place seems to be his radical denial of any previous analysis, as he considers all of them to be mystifying and useless. Salt is very proud of his background in natural science, but also points out how unrecognized his genius is in the field - one wonders how is that. The militancy of his theoretical persuasion, unconstructive critique of previous approaches, as well as his reduction of film's formal questions to banality such as frames' duration through history unsurprisingly makes every other scholar in the field uncomfortable.
Salt's study has value, but he overestimates it. The sample he is working on is rather restricted, unrepresentative. He is for sure someone who has allegedly seen many films, but he himself points out that he cannot really talk much about anything else but the Hollywood canon. He is also terribly bad at stylistic analysis, if he engages in any.
Overall, his book ends up as a catalogue of titles, which has some use, but other than that, reading it feels like working with the material made by someone who has nothing to say and everything to stand against. He aimed at such a great scope of his study, yet ended up getting lost in oversimplification and subjective connection of information.
The warmest suggestion would be to read David Bordwell instead.
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