Summary
David Cook: A History of Film I-II
Second, Revised and Completed Edition
David A. Cook's History of Film is a comprehensive guide to the art of motion pictures from its beginnings to the present day. The author explains all the important aspects of film and filmmaking and at the same time introduces us to the technological, social and economic context in which world cinematography was created and developed. In the historical overview, Cook expertly incorporates a detailed analysis of the most important film achievements such as Birth of a Nation, Battleship Potemkin and Citizen Kane. At the same time, he devotes his attention to films that strongly influenced the careers of famous directors, including Hitchcock's Vertigo, Renoir's The Rules of the Game, Ozu's Tokyo Story and Paradzhanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. The work provides a lot of information about the most important periods of film development and famous film schools: Weimar film, Russian film of the pre-Soviet period, French new wave, new Spanish film...; it talks about the development of film technology and, of course, about the most famous film directors: Griffith, Wells, Kurosawa, Bergman, Stone... The new edition offers an exhaustive overview of the changes that have taken place in contemporary cinema: from digital innovation and their impact on distribution, consumption and independent film production, to examining the possibilities for the formation of a global film landscape.
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