A Short History of Film

This updated edition presents new and amended coverage of film in general as well as the final works and birth/death dates of notable directors. Its expanded focus on key films brings the new edition firmly into the digital era and chronicles the death of film as a production medium. With more than 250 rare color and black-and-white stills, the book is unmatched in its panoramic view of the medium as it is practiced in the U.S. and around the world as well as its sense of cinema's sweep in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.