Film Isms...: Understanding Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780789322142)

The perfect small-format, one-stop resource to appreciating and understanding films from Hollywood to Bollywood. Following the success of Isms: Understanding Art and Isms: Understanding Architectural Styles, this guide sorts the great classic films and directors according to the significant movements that have shaped the development of cinema. Beginning with the early silent era, it spans the entire range of movie history up to the present wave of indie films and the growing fascination with international cinema. Each spread is devoted to a distinct movement and explains when it first emerged, the principal directors, themes, and representative films, and is illustrated with film stills, posters, and photos. Important international cinematic breakthroughs are also highlighted, as well as the careers of international auteurs like Kurosawa, Fellini, and Almod var. From prewar Expressionism to twenty-first-century Dystopianism, Film Isms... offers an engaging, new way of understanding movie history.

Author: Ronald Bergan
ISBN-10: 0789322145
ISBN-13: 9780789322142
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2011
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.64w x 0.58d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2011 pg. 76