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esztokam's review against another edition
DNF'd for now. p.125
Trying again next year.
Trying again next year.
larkspire's review against another edition
4.0
Fantastic overview of film history, focussing on particular areas. Definitely worth getting if you're a student, or even vaguely interested in film beyond catching the latest blockbuster (but I can almost guarantee you'll find yourself skipping over paragraphs to entire chapters).
sdbecque's review against another edition
1.0
So, I get to count this towards my count of books read this year, because I damn well did read every single painful (assigned) word of this thing. If anyone cares I will tell you why I hated it. But B&T care about nothing but film and aesthetics, and I care about ideological meaning, so I think we will agree to disagree. In one stunning moment they discuss how the end of inflation in Germany in the 1930s (inflation so bad no one could buy bread with thousands of dollars) was a blow to the film industry there. Sure, no one could buy bread and people were starving to death, but B&T remain concerned only with the national cinema. Ok.
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