Videohound's World Cinema: The Adventurer's Guide to Movie Watching
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1578590590 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 575 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Wonderful Guide to The Worlds Great Foreign Films This is a great reference to foreign films. I love reading the reviews of films I have seen, and those I hope to see.This is one book that I would love to have in future updated editions. I certainly hope the author will consider future and much expanded versions.This is a great book!!. A Customer said May not be what you are lookin for.. I wrote a review for this book several months ago uponreceiving my copy from . After owning it for a while, I haverealized that I probably wrote with too much haste. I was initiallyvery disappointed because I had expected a completely comprehensiveforeign film encyclopedia and that is not what Videohound's WorldCinema is at all. World Cinema is an introduction to the foreign filmworld and is simply very incomplete in its coverage of the thisworld. . A Customer said Don't Buy It. After ordering my copy of VideoHound's World Cinema: The Adventurer's Guide to Movie Watching I must say that I was rather disappointed in the hound. Okay, lets say that you are not familiar to any of the directors in the book and you read a review and check out the film and you love what you see. You will probably want to check out other pieces of work by this same director. Unfortunately the Videohound World Cinema book does not list all of the w
Hopp's collection is less successful. As with Wilhelm's volume, the writing is lively and informative, and illustrations abound, but few patrons are likely to think of many of these films as "epic," which diminishes the primacy of this otherwise useful book. From Library Journal VideoHound's highly subjective but always entertaining film series continues with two volumes that demonstrate how exciting this series continues to be. Wilhelm, curator of film at the Detroit Institute of Arts, presents short critiques (100-200 words) of hundreds of non-U.S. However, as Hopp includes recent releases, Epics is also worth purchasing for most film libraries. Adam, Prairie View A&M Univ., TXCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Happily, Wilhelm examines obscure films alongside the classics, and his selections are up-to-date, making this is a strong addition to any film library. movies from all times and countries. Inte
100 photos.. Wilhelm examines more than 800 movies from the audience's point of view, with an eye toward connections to other films and filmmakers, linking the international cinema with the American filmmaking experience