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Edited by Nowell-Smith Geoffrey

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The Oxford History of World Cinema, is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the cinema ever undertaken. It traces the history of the twentieth-century”s most enduringly popular entertainment form, covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact. An invaluable and entertaining guide and resource for the student and general reader.

The Oxford History of World Cinema is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema ever undertaken. It traces the history of the twentieth-century”s most enduringly popular entertainment form, covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact. The book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the Avant-Garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong,with an international team of distinguished film historians telling the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel. Other chapters outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world – the varied and distinctive filmic traditions thathave developed alongside Hollywood. Also included are over 140 special inset features on the film-makers and personalities – Garbo and Godard, Keaton and Kurosawa, Bugs Bunny and Bergman – who have had an enduring impact in popular memory and cinematic lore. With over 300 illustrations, a full bibliography, and an extensive index, The Oxford History of World Cinema is an invaluable and entertaining guide and resource for the student and general reader.

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a richly rewarding, impressively wide-ranging trawl through the medium”s first 100 years

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an essential guide for all serious cinema enthusiasts

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If any new book deserves the gloss of informed and sacred text, it is The Oxford History of World Cinema … a sound and thorough job in creating something that at least tries to be genuinely definitive.

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a model of clear editorial organization in which the essays of more than 80 contributors are marshalled into an illuminating mosaic.

Biographical note
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Project Director of the Joint European Filmography, and Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre at Oxford University.

Publisher”s notice
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Project Director of the Joint European Filmography, and Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre at Oxford University.

Feature
Covers 100 years of cinema history, from animation to the avant garde, Hollywood to Hong Kong300 illustrations, full bibliography, and extensive index140 special inset features on film personalities from Bugs Bunny to Bertolucci

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Nowell-Smith has assembled an impressive array of around eighty film historians contributing detailed articles based on their specialist expertise of this or that film movement, film genre, or national cinema…the Oxford History is destined to join the other global histories on the college library shelves and to play a significant role in film history courses…It is a scholarly work in the sense that the individual contributions have a depth deriving from thespecial expertise of the various contributors…students need to consult the kind of in-depth material available on specific areas of cinema impressively presented by the Oxford History in order todeepen and extend their knowledge and perception of the complexities of film form and cinema history./Tom Ryall/Screen 38:3 Autumn 1997.`the most concerted effort to date by cinematic academia to re-establish links with a larger public by dispensing with the usual rebarbative jargon … The ground covered is immense.”Philip French, The Obse