A History of the Cinema From its Origins to 1970

By Eric Rhode

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809054809
• ISBN13: 9780809054800
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 674 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A great one-volume film history should be in anyone's library

You cannot have too many histories of the cinema, books. There were a few out there that were written just to take up space. But this is not one of those books. Eric Rhode has done an excellent job of chronicling great films and how they change throughout the decades. He also covers how they relate to the politics of the time. The book is also permeated with stills from great movies that match the eras that he is speaking about. I just enjoy perusing the pictures and thinking about when I watched the films. Just a small selection from this great collection: Inventions and discoveries The age of D. W. Griffin Aspects of the Soviet cinema The influence of the French avant-garde Weimar and Scandinavia Hollywood in the 20s Adapting to sound The depression: the media and social conscience The Second World War Neo-realism and the Cold War Internationalism Just a note: Eric Rhode is a good writer, so this is not just a compilation of dry facts.