Film books : a visual history - First edition : [Bibliographie]
Viejo, Breixo
New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2016 - XXI, 241 Seiten
Kracauer-Bibliographie
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- Buchumschlag
- 978-1-58456-343-3
- 1-58456-343-5
- Englisch
- USA
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Film books : a visual history
/ Breixo Viejo
Published
New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2016
Edition
First edition
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XXI, 241 Seiten : Illustrationen
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Land
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Film books. A visual history' covers cinema literature from 1895 until the present day. It comprises a 20-page introduction, 140 brief essays on major film books, 360 bibliographical descriptions, and more than 200 colour illustrations. The introduction presents a detailed historical analysis of cinema literature, emphasizing the importance of film books in the history of motion pictures. Individual entries examine the relevance of a particular film book, both in content and design, and include one or more illustrations of dust jackets, book covers, page layouts, and film stills. Among the books discussed are Auguste and Louis Lumière's Notice sur le Cinématographe (1897), Hans Richter's Filmgegner von Heute, Filmfreunde von Morgen (1929), Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon (1941), Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler (1947), Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylone (1959), François Truffaut's Le Cinéma selon Hitchcock (1966), and Andrew Sarris' The American Cinema (1968), just to name a few.0This work is the first truly comprehensive study of film books and the perfect complement to previous bibliographical listings of cinema literature
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