The Film Book: A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema

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This long-unfindable book (now revived in a new edition) brings together essays that can stand alongside those of Borges, Barthes and just about anyone who helped shape it. The single best reference work on the cinema I’ve dipped into, this ought to have become standard household issue. Soshun is the most outstanding piece of film analysis in decades – based on only the first few minutes of the subject’s work. Then I looked at what could make the bones for the present day high school teenagers, and if I ever thought like, wait, how would this happen, I would just go back to Emma and there were the answers.

Whether you enjoy art films or sci-fi, going to the cinema, or watching movies on Netflix, The Film Book covers it all.The Bible of the dedicated cinephile when it was first published in 1968, and still an invaluable route map of what needs to be seen. But the whole sweep of Russian cinema up to the years just after Stalin’s death are vividly chronicled by Leyda. The trilogy of teen romantic comedy books by Jenny Han turned Netflix movies are popular for a reason. As a postgrad studying aesthetics, I was enthralled to find an English-language philosopher who understood cinema!

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After much internal debate, I’ve opted for this essential collection over the far heftier Farber on Film because this includes the lengthy and indispensable interview Farber and Patricia Patterson gave to Richard Thompson in 1977, whereas the other volume, even though it sports the almost accurate subtitle The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber, contains only excerpts from it. The essential and authoritative guide to films, directors, genres, and stylesStep into the world of cinema and discover everything there is to know about movies, directors, genres, and styles.