Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

The Oxford History of World Cinema, an international team of film historians traces the history of this enduringly of most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema Covering all aspects of its development, actors, studios, and cultural impact, that chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from the westerns movies to the New Wave, from animation to the avant-garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong, in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, the unique aspect of the book are the special inset as a feature on the film directory and personality life like--Garbo, Godard, Keaton, Kurosawa, Bergman who have had happy enduring cinematic lore, is an invaluable and entertaining guide and resource for the student and general reader.… (altro)