Cinema Today
A comprehensive survey of world cinema since 1970.
Edward Buscombe
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- A comprehensive survey of world cinema since 1970 with an accessible and engaging text that includes over 1,000 film references
- Features in-depth case studies of films such as Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), Talk To Her (Hable con ella, Pedro Almodóvar, 2002) and Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse, 1987)
- Films by established directors are featured alongside the work of a new generation of film-makers
- Over 700 images reflecting the visual cinematic medium, including stills, on-set shots, 25 case studies, posters and other visual ephemera
- A comprehensive directors' filmography, bibliography, chronology and index make this book an invaluable reference tool
- Hardback
- English
- 290 x 250 mm, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in
- 512 pp
- 671 colour illustrations, 64 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714840819
- ISBN-10: 0714840815
'Cinema Today is informative, comprehensive and up to date, and provides a unique resource for academics, students and anyone with an interest in the moving image and the film industry...an invaluable reference tool.' (Cinema Technology)
'This epic survey of post-1970 cinema is possibly the most addictive film book ever published. Wherever you open it, your eye is struck by an iconic or striking image...Linked by a judicious text the book's 500 pages are equally divided between films you know and films you'd like to know.' (Independent)
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