The Mysteries of Cinema: Movies and Imagination

by Peter Conrad

This is a thematic roller-coaster ride through cinema history, with film expert Peter Conrad in the seat beside you. Thoroughly international, this book ranges from Fay Wray to Satyajit Ray, from Buster Keaton to Kurosawa, from westerns to nouvelle vague. Conrad explores the medium's relationship to speed, technology, fantasy, horror, dream, color, sound, light, and shadow with reference to scores of films, from the earliest nineteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500022992
• ISBN13: 9780500022993
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.6"