On top of what reads as an almost
encyclopaedic account of English - language writing on and debates around mise en scène, Martin offers appropriate engagement with French film scholarship — both in translation and in the original — plus the thriving world of trans - national Spanish - language film criticism.
Exploring the Western tradition of writing from Aeschylus to John Paul II, Lucy Beckett provides
an encyclopaedic account of what might be styled an «alternative canon» of great writers.