如果说诸如绘画、雕塑这些艺术首先是以一种艺术形式出现并同时被世人所认可。而电影的出现却不大一样。在电影问世的头20年里,人们一直把它看成是一种市井杂耍。由此看来,电影似乎比其它艺术更需要理论的支持。但直到1915年,美国的西部诗人林赛才在他最早的著作《活动画面的艺术》中,第一次把电影称为“艺术”。 以后,从爱姻汉姆到克拉考尔,其间有众多的电影艺术家对电影理论研究付出毕生努力,把电影理论研究步步推向深入,对电影的实际创作产生重大影响。进入20世纪中期,克拉考尔出版了重要的电影理论著作《电影的本性》,事实上书中克拉考尔 If we say that such as painting, sculpture, these art first appeared in an art form and at the same time by the world recognized. The appearance of the movie is not the same. In the first two decades of the movie, people used to think of it as a city juggling. Seen in this light, the movie seems to require more theoretical support than any other art. But it was not until 1915 that Lindsay, the western poet in the United States, first called the movie “art” in his earliest book, The Art of Moving Pictures. Since then, from El Nirvana to Klacall, numerous film artists have devoted their lives to film theory research and deeply studied the theory of film theory, which has a significant impact on the actual creation of the film. Into the mid-20th century, Klaccarle published an important film theory book “the nature of the film”, in fact, the book Klacall