Movie Movements: Films That Changed the World of Cinema

Description

A one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped the sense of what cinema is and can be. It introduces founding concepts in Film Studies such as authorship and genre, technological impacts and the rise of digital cinema, social influences, notions of the avant-garde and cinema's emergence as a major art form. It explores, in concise and clear sections, how major works from the classic French realist La Regle du Jeu to the dazzling animation of Norman McLaren or the documentary Shoah were conceived, developed and eventually received by the public, critics and film history.

James Clarke is the writer of The Pocket Essentials: Steven Spielberg and The Pocket Essentials: George Lucas. He has also written The Virgin Film Guide: Coppola and The Virgin Film Guide: War Films. His work has been published by The Guardian and the magazines Empire, Moving Pictures and Resurgence. He has also written for the British Film Institute and has worked as a writer and producer in community media and short filmmaking. James is the Programme Manager of Media Arts degree courses at Hereford College of Arts.

A tsunami of film noirs and isms * Total Film * Intelligent but very readable...a good coffee table book for any film buff -- Charlene Lydon * Film Ireland * James Clarke's Movie Movements is part of the Kamera book series, which are helpful guides to random cinema-related phenomena -- Charlene Lydon * Film Ireland *