"This book offers an exciting and productive way of thinking about cinema, allowing the reader to become acquainted with a large range of important declarations on film and on its mission from across its history. This is a volume that every film scholar will want to have." --Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University "Embracing the entire history of cinema, this work maps in detail territory barely explored hitherto, and is fully contextualized through historically informed and theoretically informative commentary that places the manifesto at the heart of film history and film culture. A hugely impressive achievement." --Annette Kuhn, co-author of the Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies "This is a galvanizing collection of hundreds of calls to arms for the cinema. It's an inspiring affirmation of the core vitality of this most important art across decades and throughout the world." --Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary, 2nd edition, and Engaging Cinema
