Fully revised and updated -- including the 2003 Academy Awards -- Cinema Year by Year is the definitive chronology of the movies. Thousands of lively, informative articles trace the development of the cinema from the first experiments of Edison and the Lumieres to the global film industry of the 21st century, accompanied throughout by stills, posters, portraits, and other images, this volume is a pleasure to browse as well as a terrific reference for movie lovers.
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Foreword contributor David Thompson is a highly regarded writer and critic for American and UK magazines and newspapers. He has written a variety of biographies and novels, including 'Showman: The Life of David O Selznick' 'Rosebud: The story of Orson Welles', and 'Silver Lights'. David is based in San Fransisco.
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Much more than a coffee table book,
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This review is from: Cinema: Year by Year, 1894-2003 (Hardcover)
If you enjoy watching or just knowing about cinema, this book is for you. For those of us that are old enough to remember, we are whisked back to what we were doing at the time and remember the impact of the first of a series or the first of a new technique. For the rest of us it gives us the backgrounds that we did hot have the privilege of seeing first hand.
Being divided into years makes it easy to retrieve information and to view what was going on at the same time. The book its self looks like a collection of newspaper articles and posters of the time of each movie. You can not get this information from some cheap cinema magazine. For those people who are too impatient or that browsing drives them up the wall there is a comprehensive Contents and Index; includes are special features such as "The Oscar Story" and " Special Effects: Tricks of the Trade." They seem to have left out a few of my favorites yet; I am just having fun reading the blurbs. The have everything from "Laura" to "Total Recall"
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