A History Of The Cinema: From Its Origins To 1970
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Few art forms have reshaped human culture as profoundly and as rapidly as cinema, and Eric Rhode's monumental A History of the Cinema: From Its Origins to 1970 stands as one of the most authoritative and intellectually rigorous accounts of its evolution. Spanning nearly eight decades of filmmaking — from the flickering silence of the Lumière Brothers' earliest projections to the radical countercultural movements of the late 1960s — Rhode chronicles the aesthetic, technological, and social forces that transformed a carnival novelty into the defining art form of the twentieth century. Rhode writes with a critic's precision and a scholar's depth, placing individual films and filmmakers within the broader currents of history, politics, and philosophy. He illuminates the great national cinemas — Soviet montage, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, and Hollywood's golden studio era — not as isolated movements but as interconnected responses to a world in constant upheaval. For anyone seeking to understand not just what cinema is, but why it matters, this sweeping and commanding work delivers an answer that is as challenging as it is rewarding.
Author: Eric Rhode
Format: Paperback
Genre: Movies & entertainment
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few art forms have reshaped human culture as profoundly and as rapidly as cinema, and Eric Rhode's monumental A History of the Cinema: From Its Origins to 1970 stands as one of the most authoritative and intellectually rigorous accounts of its evolution. Spanning nearly eight decades of filmmaking — from the flickering silence of the Lumière Brothers' earliest projections to the radical countercultural movements of the late 1960s — Rhode chronicles the aesthetic, technological, and social forces that transformed a carnival novelty into the defining art form of the twentieth century. Rhode writes with a critic's precision and a scholar's depth, placing individual films and filmmakers within the broader currents of history, politics, and philosophy. He illuminates the great national cinemas — Soviet montage, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, and Hollywood's golden studio era — not as isolated movements but as interconnected responses to a world in constant upheaval. For anyone seeking to understand not just what cinema is, but why it matters, this sweeping and commanding work delivers an answer that is as challenging as it is rewarding.