Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-269) and index.

Foreword : Rudolf Arnheim in retrospect / Dudley Andrew -- Introduction -- Rudolf Arnheim, clarity, simplicity, balance / David Bordwell -- Arnheim and modernism / Malcolm Turvey -- Rudolf Arnheim's early passage between social and aesthetic film criticism / Eric Rentschler -- Screening out sound : Arnheim and cinema's silence / Nora Alter -- A gestalt approach to film analysis / Meraj Dhir -- Deft trajectories for the eye : bringing Arnheim to Vincente Minnelli's color design / Scott Higgins -- Perfecting the complete cinema / Jinhee Choi -- Art, accident, and the interpretation of the modern world / Patrick Keating -- Visual thinking of the avant-garde film / Maureen Turim -- Arnheim on radio : materialtheorie and beyond / Shawn VanCour -- Television from afar : Arnheim's understanding of media / Doron Galili -- Arnheim and comics / Greg Smith -- Arnheim on style history / Colin Burnett -- Arnheim on the ontology of the photographic image / Vincent Bohlinger.