Movie Movements: Films That Changed the World of Cinema

By James Clarke

Movie Movements: Films That Changed the World of Cinema is a one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. It introduces the reader to definitions of the founding concepts in Film Studies such as authorship and genre, technological impacts and the rise of digital cinema, social influences and notions of the avant-garde, and cinema's emergence as a major art form that reflects and shapes the world.

It explores, in concise and clear sections, how major works from the classic French realist La Regle de Jeu to the dazzling animation of Norman McLaren and the memorial documentary of Shoah, were conceived, developed and produced, and eventually received by the public, critics and film history.

Offering a concise overview of a vast and compelling subject, it's a book for both the film enthusiast and the Film Studies student.

Films discussed by James Clarke include:

Kes

Rome, Open City

Metropolis

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Tales of Hoffmann

The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

La Belle et la Bête

Un Chien Andalou

Koyaanisqatsi

Night Mail

Rome, Open City

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Tales of Hoffmann

The Seventh Seal

Un Chien Andalou

Koyaanisqatsi

Night Mail

Nanook of the North

Into Great Silence

We Are the Lambeth Boys

Battleship Potemkin

Jules et Jim

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Wings of Desire

The Hired Hand

Seven Samurai

Pan's Labyrintk

'Movie Movements is part of the Kamera book series, which are helpful guides to random cinema-related phenomena' - Film Ireland

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kamera Books
• Release date: Feb 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781842434444

James Clarke

James Clarke is the author of Movie Movements: Films That Changed The World of Cinema and a number of other film books. He has contributed to Empire, Imagine, Resurgence and Classic FM and has lectured on the subject of film at the University of Gloucestershire and the University of Sussex.