Film Isms... by Ronald Bergan

Film Isms... by Ronald Bergan

The perfect small-format, one-stop resource to appreciating and understanding films from Hollywood to Bollywood. Following the success of Isms: Understanding Art and Isms: Understanding Architectural Styles, this guide sorts the great classic films and directors according to the significant movements that have shaped the development of cinema. Beginning with the early silent era, it spans the entire range of movie history up to the present wave of indie films and the growing fascination with international cinema. Each spread is devoted to a distinct movement and explains when it first emerged, the principal directors, themes, and representative films, and is illustrated with film stills, posters, and photos. Important international cinematic breakthroughs are also highlighted, as well as the careers of international auteurs like Kurosawa, Fellini, and Almod var. From prewar Expressionism to twenty-first-century Dystopianism, Film Isms. offers an engaging, new way of understanding movie history.

“For your favorite film buff: a handy little resource guide about movie history” ~LAmag

Bergan, Ronald: - Ronald Bergan, film historian, critic, and lecturer, is a regular contributor to the Guardian. The author of numerous film biographies, including Sergei Eisenstein, and Katharine Hepburn, published by Arcade, he held the chair in film at Florida International University in Miami and lectured at the Sorbonne, the British Institute in Paris, and the University of Lille. He now lives in Prague, where he teaches at the famed FAMU film school.

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ISBN 13	9780789322142
ISBN 10	0789322145
Title	Film Isms...
Author	Ronald Bergan
Series	Understanding
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Universe Publishing
Year published	2011-03-15
Number of pages	160
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