• Book

    • Beatrice Fiorentino      (a cura di)

      A New History of Cinema

      From its origins to its future

    • A New History of Cinema
      • Overview
      • About the author
      • Press
    • Beatrice Fiorentino      (a cura di)

      A New History of Cinema

      From its origins to its future

      • Overview
      • About the author
      • Press

      Overview

      With its critical and yet informative approach, accessible to both expert readers and cinema lovers at their first movies, this book examines the most significant artistic, historic, technological and social stages that have marked the history of cinema.

      From cave paintings to magic lanterns, through to the invention of cinematograph by the Lumière brothers, followed by contextualising events in mainly chronological, but also digressive sequence, from the first “legendary” projection of Arrival of a train at La Ciotat, to the astonishment still felt by the audience on viewing the stunning landscapes in Avatar 2. Silent movies and the golden age of Hollywood; the genres and auteur movies; movements, schools, waves: neorealism, the “vagues”, the New Hollywood, post-modern cinema, the crisis of theatres and the relaunch of cinecomics, sagas and reboots, arriving at the challenges of new languages in the age of on-demand platforms.

      A thoroughly reasoned journey, with a wealth of images and specific text boxes, whose aim is to provide information about the origins, but which especially tries to create a connection with the present time, and ventures to think about the future.

      About the author

      Beatrice Fiorentino journalist, essayist, and movie critic, professor of Semiology of Cinema and Audiovisual at the University of Trieste, received an award as “best movie critic” at the 71st Venice Film Festival. Since 2016 she has been in the selection committee of the Settimana Internazionale della Critica di Venezia, of which she was appointed General Delegate in 2020

  • Book formats

    • Binding: Paperback
      Size: 18 x 23,5
      Print: Colours
      Pages: XVIII-414
      ISBN: 9788836010837
      Price: € 29,90

    Digital formats

    • epub
      ISBN: 9788836010844
      Price: € 24,99
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      ISBN: 9788836010844