Movie (Quick Read)

Author: John Dowland
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Publication Date: 2002-02-01
Features: If someone mentions "High Society," do you think of "Philadelphia Story"? Do you remember Charles Roton, Doolittle Howard, and Anthony Hopkins playing Captain Bligh? Do you know what a rosebud is? If you have no idea about these, then "The Film ~ Quick Read" can help you:
· Assuming you know nothing about the history of cinema,
· From Buster Keaton to the Coen Brothers, covering everything,
· Revealing the secrets behind the creation of blockbusters and the truth about their directors,
· Interlaced with scenes and portraits of characters,
· Introducing film genres with studio slang.
This book provides readers with the information about all the big figures and major events in the global film industry, like a stack of newspaper clippings, allowing them to feel the charm of films from generation to generation—from Eisenstein's "Potemkin" to James Cameron's "Titanic," or from "The Frankenstein" to Fred's horror films of the 1980s, "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
More importantly, the author of this book does not want the act of "reading books about films" to have any mysterious connotations. Although the film industry has recently, like other entertainment circles, become popular with too much bombastic jargon and ambiguous slang, readers will not encounter such clichés in this book. The author simply wants to share their own thoughts and opinions on this beloved art form, though sometimes they may be somewhat eccentric, or more often, not very polite. But these words are heartfelt and genuine.