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30-Second Cinema
The 50 most important ideas, genres, and people in the history of movie-making, each explained in half a minute
This book is available to read until 1st January, 2026
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 1 Jan |Learn more
30-Second Cinema
The 50 most important ideas, genres, and people in the history of movie-making, each explained in half a minute
About this book
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.
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INDEX
A
Academy Awards 13, 124
actualities 16
Adler, Stella 84
Akerman, Chantal 140, 144
Akkari, Greg 142
Alcott, John 52
Almodóvar, Pedro 64
Amazon 116, 132
American New Wave 26
anamorphic process 114, 128
Anderson, Paul Thomas 130
animation 44
arthouse cinema 114, 138
Asch, Timothy 148
Astruc, Alexandre 48
auteur theory 48
awards 124
axial cuts 48
B
Baker, Sean 130, 142
Battleship Potemkin 96
Bazin, André 48, 122
Belle du Jour 88
Bergman, Ingmar 58, 138
Berkeley, Busby 38
Birth of a Nation, The 21
Blu-ray 114, 132
Blue Angel, The 78, 79
Bollywood 38...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Beginning
- Genres
- Directors
- Stars
- Movements
- The Business
- Beyond the Multiplex
- Appendices
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright