The Complete Idiot's Guide to Movies, Flicks and Film

by Mark Winokur and Bruce Holsinger

Book Overview

Discusses the history and process of filmmaking, foreign films, Hollywood's Golden Age, the functions of different people on the set, and the greatest actors and directors. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002863988X
• ISBN13: 9780028639888
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Alpha Books
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

My English Report

Are you kidding me one star guy?!? I used this book in my American Lit. term paper, and I thought it was fantastic! And I'm a heavy reader! It gave me everything I needed for an easy A, and I enjoyed reading it too.

Great material to convert a beginner into a filmophile

A great introduction to the entire world of film -- not just Hollywood, but a host of world cinemas from European to Latin American to African and Near Eastern. The examples used are well explained and are always pertinent to the points at hand. My favorite chapters were one on film theory (which made obscure concepts accessible to the beginner) and one that used all the concepts introduced in the book to explain the German silent film "Nosferatu." I had just seen the new movie "Shadow of the Vampire," which is based on the making of "Nosferatu"; this book made me understand for the first time what a complex piece of art that early movie is. I highly recommend this book as an affordable intro to film criticism that, while accessible and fun to read, does not talk down to its audience.