The Film Book: A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema

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Discover the behind-the-scenes stories about timeless classics like Citizen Kane and The Godfather, and take a front row seat at lavish blockbusters like Star Wars or Titanic. This is an exemplary collection, with a superb opening essay on the importance of resisting complicity with the culture supermarket. It includes every film-making school from across the globe, behind-the-scenes shots, profiles of 100 influential directors, and lists more than 100 of the greatest movies ever made! The one true advance from pop criticism into academic thought, yet that still relates to pop, pleasure and real life.

It's meaty but short with lots of wonderful photos to illustrate and make you want to see so many films - often films you forgot about and would like to see again! Through his sophisticated apologia for melodrama, a despised genre was propelled into the academic spotlight where it has remained ever since.

Step into the world of cinema and learn everything there is to know about movies, directors, genres, and styles.From box office hits and cult classics to romcoms and thrillers, this is your go-to guide to movies, directors, genres, styles, and just about anything else cinema. Forget that you’re making a film”; “Slow films in which everyone gallops and gesticulates; quick films in which people hardly move”; “Your film must be like the one you see while shutting your eyes. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around November 25, 2008. Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal Lecter, who famously asks Jodi Foster's character, “Well, Clarice…have the lambs stopped screaming? First published in 1944 and constantly revised over the next decade, Manvell’s marvellous book covered all aspects of cinema and was the one book that all of us owned.

Ever the disappointed idealist, Agee offered grudging praise to such compromised efforts as Meet Me in St.Scorsese is as interested in Allan Dwan, Phil Karlson, Jacques Tourneur and Sam Fuller as he is in the bigger-name directors. But this film version, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, takes a more realistic approach than other film versions.