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Cinema: Year By Year, 1894-2003
The Kid meets The Jazz Singer and It's a Wonderful Life as they have Breakfast at Tiffany's before The Empire Strikes Back and Harry Potter casts a cinematic spell. From the birth of film in the 1890s to 2003's technical wizardry, this year-by-year guide to the films, the stars, the Oscars and the innovations, with over 3000 illustrations, brings the silver screen to life and provides a detailed visual history of cinema.
1005 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2003
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December 4, 2022
Much more than a coffee table book
If you enjoy watching or just know about the 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 firsthand.
Being divided into years makes it easy to retrieve information and to view what was going on at the same time.
The book itself 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; that includes 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. They have everything from "Laura" to "Total Recall"
If you enjoy watching or just know about the 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 firsthand.
Being divided into years makes it easy to retrieve information and to view what was going on at the same time.
The book itself 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; that includes 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. They have everything from "Laura" to "Total Recall"
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