30-second cinema : the 50 most important ideas, genres, and people in the history of movies, each explained in half a minute / editor, Pamela Hutchinson, contributors, Nikki Baughan [and five others] ; illustrator, Nicky Ackland-Snow.

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Ivy Press, 2019Description: 160 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:

text
still image

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781782405498 (hbk)
1782405496 (hbk)

Other title:

Thirty-second cinema

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DDC classification:

791.43 HUT 23

Summary: Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast? Can you reel off a list of New Wave masterpieces, or are you more interested in classic Westerns? Most of us love the movies in one form or another, but very few of us have the all-round knowledge we'd like. 30-Second Cinema offers an immersion course, served up in neat, entertaining shorts. These 50 topics deal with cinema's beginnings, with its growth as an industry, with key stars and producers, with global movementsfrom German Expressionism to New Hollywoodand with the movies as a business. By the time you've worked your way through, you'll be able to identify the work of George Melies, define auteur theory or mumblecore in a couple of pithy phrases, and you'll have broadened your knowledge of global cinema to embrace not only Bollywood but Nollywood, too. All in the time it takes to watch a couple of trailers.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	791.43 HUT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100639534

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast? Can you reel off a list of New Wave masterpieces, or are you more interested in classic Westerns? Most of us love the movies in one form or another, but very few of us have the all-round knowledge we'd like. 30-Second Cinema offers an immersion course, served up in neat, entertaining shorts. These 50 topics deal with cinema's beginnings, with its growth as an industry, with key stars and producers, with global movements--from German Expressionism to New Hollywood--and with the movies as a business. By the time you've worked your way through, you'll be able to identify the work of George Melies, define auteur theory or mumblecore in a couple of pithy phrases, and you'll have broadened your knowledge of global cinema to embrace not only Bollywood but Nollywood, too. All in the time it takes to watch a couple of trailers.

Includes index.

Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast? Can you reel off a list of New Wave masterpieces, or are you more interested in classic Westerns? Most of us love the movies in one form or another, but very few of us have the all-round knowledge we'd like. 30-Second Cinema offers an immersion course, served up in neat, entertaining shorts. These 50 topics deal with cinema's beginnings, with its growth as an industry, with key stars and producers, with global movementsfrom German Expressionism to New Hollywoodand with the movies as a business. By the time you've worked your way through, you'll be able to identify the work of George Melies, define auteur theory or mumblecore in a couple of pithy phrases, and you'll have broadened your knowledge of global cinema to embrace not only Bollywood but Nollywood, too. All in the time it takes to watch a couple of trailers.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Pamela Hutchinson is a writer and film critic who specialises in film history, especially silent cinema and women in film. She edits the silent cinema website SilentLondon.co.uk and contributes regularly to Sight & Sound and the Guardian (where she was previously on staff for 12 years). Her book, Pandora's Box, in the BFI Film Classics series, was published in 2017.