"A delightful book for browsing and sufficiently comprehensive for serious students. . . . Film buffs will appreciate the range and beauty of this well-written and fully illustrated movie compendium."
-Entertainment Today

Covering a wide variety of classics as well as recent films, Robert Sklar's highly informative and entertaining history of motion pictures is the standout volume in the field. With a global perspective and exceptional breadth and quality of illustrations, it authoritatively covers the technological and stylistic developments of movies in the rich context of culture, politics, society, and other arts.
777 illustrations, 212 in full color, 592 pages, 85/8 x 111/2"

"A delightful book for browsing and sufficiently comprehensive for serious students. . . . Film buffs will appreciate the range and beauty of this well-written and fully illustrated movie compendium."
-Entertainment Today

Covering a wide variety of classics as well as recent films, Robert Sklar's highly informative and entertaining history of motion pictures is the standout volume in the field. With a global perspective and exceptional breadth and quality of illustrations, it authoritatively covers the technological and stylistic developments of movies in the rich context of culture, politics, society, and other arts.
777 illustrations, 212 in full color, 592 pages, 85/8 x 111/2"

The contributors also place their critiques within the context of the changing fortunes of the Hollywood studio system, the impact of the Depression, and Capra's working relationships with other studio staff and directors. The contributors' access to nineteen newly restored Capra films made at Columbia during this period fills this collection with some of the most comprehensive critiques available on the director's early body of work.