The Object of Poetry and Its Truth

John Francis Nieto             1. The comments I will make this afternoon concern the proper object of poetry and the truth that object admits of. I hope to situate this truth more or less “between” the that of ethics and prudence and the truth of history, taking that word to include not only history proper

A Study of Film

for Michael Paietta John Francis Nieto 1. In the following remarks I propose to answer three questions. First, whether film, or to speak a little more accurately, ‘narrative film’, is an art? Second, how the art of narrative film distinguishes itself from other arts, principally, drama and the novel? Third, what are the powers most