The Rough Guide to Film 1 (Rough Guide Reference) - Softcover

Armstrong, Richard; Charity, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843534088 ISBN 13: 9781843534082

Publisher: Rough Guides, 2007

Synopsis

The Rough Guide to Film is a bold new guide to cinema. Arranged by director, it covers the top moguls, mavericks and studio stalwarts of every era, genre and region, in addition to lots of lesser-known names. With each film placed in the context of its director’s career, the guide reviews thousands of the greatest movies ever made, with lists highlighting where to start, arranged by genre and by region. You’ll find profiles of over eight hundred directors, from Hollywood legends Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to contemporary favourites like Steven Soderbergh and Martin Scorsese and cult names such as David Lynch and Richard Linklater. The guide is packed with great cinema from around the globe, including French New Wave, German giants, Iranian innovators and the best of East Asia, from Akira Kurosawa to Wong Kar-Wai and John Woo. With overviews of all major movements and genres, feature boxes on partnerships between directors and key actors, and cinematographers and composers, this is your essential guide to a world of cinema.

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In the spirit of the Rough Guides travel books, this volume looks beyond the Hollywood mainstream to provide assistance to anyone who is browsing rental-store shelves or online DVD catalogs in search of something new. More than 800 directors from around the globe are profiled, and more than 2,000 of their most important films are briefly reviewed. Boxed features examine genres, national cinemas, and other topics. If you’re in a hurry, you can turn to the various categorized lists of five great directors, five classic films, and five “lesser-known gems.” --Mary Ellen Quinn

About this edition

• Publisher: Rough Guides
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1843534088
• ISBN 13: 9781843534082
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672