Film: An International History of the Medium

Film: An International History of the Medium is beautifully designed and strikingly illustrated by more than 750 film stills, frame enlargements, production shots, and diagrams. The 120 full-color images include rare examples of early hand-tinting, pre-cinema technology, two- and three-color Technicolor, and other innovations as well as stills from modern films. These large, stunning illustrations combine with the author's penetrating analyses, wide-ranging perspective, and lucid text to assure Film's great appeal to anyone with an interest in the medium as well as in college-level courses the world over.  Lively text and 768 illustrations, 120 in full color, cover commercial film, animation, documentaries, art cinema, and the avant-garde the world over, to present the entire history of film from a global perspective. Includes bibliography, filmography, glossary, notes, index, and 6 timelines.