The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema[Jean Mitry] is the Aristotle of film." R. D. MacCann This text marks a watershed in film theory. Mitry sums up the first fifty years of theoretical writings on the cinema" Richard Abel The rediscovery of Mitry could change the parameters of film teaching, breaking down the boundaries between the real and the formal, forcing us to see how they are inexorably fused together." Leo Charney Christian Metz wrote that with this work, an entire era of film