The Cinema Book 2nd Edition

by Pam Cook

Book Overview

This much-anticipated new edition builds upon the achievements of the first, taking stock of the many recent exciting developments in the field while retaining the historical coverage and depth of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851707262
• ISBN13: 9780851707266
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 385 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.1" x 11.5"

Customer Reviews

A must for cinema studies

I cannot recommend this book highly enough, it has an incredible wealth of information for any student of Film or Multi-media studies, but it is written so well that an understanding of academic jargon is not necessary. After much research I found this book in the University Library, if I was allowed only one reference in formulating my essays I would unhesitatingly use this book and no other. Considering the breath it covers it still manages to give more than a surface analysis. Starting from the early beginnings of film it then moves on to an informative and succinct explanation of Classical Hollywood cinema; it then has a chapter on technology; followed by an analysis of the national cinemas & film movements of Germany, the Soviet Union, Italian Neo-realism etc etc; it then gives cinematic alternatives to classic Hollywood narration, such as the New Hollywood and avante guarde; there is a lengthy section on film genre which starts with "The History of Genre Criticism; the "auteur" film is another lengthy section full of interesting bits, for example "auteur theory and British cinema"; it then concludes with a chapter on Theoretical Frameworks. At the end there is an extensive Bibliography and an Index. What this book doesn't say about cinema, isn't worth saying! I desperately want this book! Borrowing it from the Library just isn't the same!