Cinema Year by Year: 1894-2002 - Hardcover

Robin Karney (ed)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0751349690 ISBN 13: 9780751349696

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley H/B, 2002

Synopsis

The medium of film has reflected and shaped our culture since the turn of the 20th century. This 2002 edition of "Cinema Year by Year" takes the reader on a voyage through the world of movies, from their birth in the 1890s across a timespan of over 100 years. The text details key movie events, facts and figures, while the easy-to-use, ready-reference pages pinpoint the movie highlights of each year. There is an in-depth look at the complex, demanding, but ultimately fascinating work of the movie-makers and the stars, with special features examining different aspects of film history, including the silent era, special effects, and the rise of the independent film.

About this title

About the Author

Editor-In-Chief: Robyn Karney has worked in the movie industry for over 20 years as a film, theatre, and literary critic and has written many books on the subject including 'Movie Mastermind'. Foreword Contributor: Alexander Walker has been the film critic for the London Evening Standard since 1960 and is the author of more than 20 books on cinema and filmmakers.

From Publishers Weekly

An updated edition of the 1995 original Chronicle of the Cinema, this reverential reference offers a year-by-year timeline of cinema's high-water marks in the form of copious film stills, movie posters and thumbnail reports-like a "scrapbook of newspaper cuttings from the history of film"-in the panting voice of editorial hype. Each year nets less than 10 pages of material, laid out in sometimes crowded spreads, with a few breakout chapters on subjects such as special effects and the rise of independent filmmaking. The enthusiastic tone sometimes outpaces the research, particularly in realms outside studio-based common knowledge (the movie Swoon, by Tom Kalin, for instance, is mistakenly attributed to Todd Haynes), and overall the information is uncritical to the point of sounding like a giant press release. To its credit, though, as another entry in the gushing stream of Hollywood boosterism, full of familiar notions such as the studio-as-dream-factory, stars-as-royalty and art-as-commerce, this one is more charmingly real in its affections than most.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley H/B
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0751349690
• ISBN 13: 9780751349696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English