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"A landmark book on our industry."
-Clint Eastwood
"A delightful book for browsing and sufficiently comprehensive for serious students. . . . Film buffs will appreciate the range and beauty of this well-written and fully illustrated movie compendium."
-Entertainment Today
Covering a wide variety of classics as well as recent films, Robert Sklar's highly informative and entertaining history of motion pictures is the standout volume in the field. With a global perspective and exceptional breadth and quality of illustrations, it authoritatively covers the technological and stylistic developments of movies in the rich context of culture, politics, society, and other arts.
777 illustrations, 212 in full color, 592 pages, 85/8 x 111/2"
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Robert Sklar is an award-winning film historian and a film critic as well as professor of Cinema Studies at New York University.
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The beginning of film's second century has been mostly marked by a lamentable lack of quality in both American and European films. This book is a timely reminder that film remains a truly worldwide art form, nourished and renewed from diverse and unexpected sources most recently, Australia, China, and Iran. Sklar (Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies) here attempts the impossible, compressing over 100 years of film history into one oversized volume. He surveys output and trends from most major countries over the decades while providing a time line that describes other news and cultural events. Sidebars also highlight topics like independent films, gay and lesbian cinema, the new women directors, method acting, and much more. More a chronological study than an encyclopedia, this book will be useful to beginners seeking to clarify basic film concepts like neorealism or "new wave." The author's need to say something about everything contributes to a rather bland tone, and he certainly cannot do justice to directors like Spielberg, Hitchcock, or Ford in a few paragraphs. Photographs are the main attraction, and some have a wonderfully candid quality, like one showing Ingmar Bergman setting up a shot for The Seventh Seal while an actor playing the figure of Death relaxes on a nearby boulder. Up-to-date and enhanced by a glossary of film terms, this book will serve as an introductory study for film students. Recommended for large academic and public library film collections. Stephen F. Rees, Levittown Regional Lib., PA
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- PublisherHarry N. Abrams, Inc.
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0810906066
- ISBN 13 9780810906068
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages600
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