The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

A very useful book for those who are interested in the field. Also useful for entertainment quiz etc.

Always have loved this series....The concepts are explained in a concise and clear way.

Good

I loved everything about this book. Especially the content and the effort behind it.

Production standards are excellent. However, felt that the text coverage needed to be a bit more elaborate.

Very bad . Only about some movie review . Nothing to learn

In depth knowledge

Book was damaged

Bought it as a gift and I'm very happy about it. The only issue was the very late delivery. I ordered this one taking note of the arrival timing but was quite disappointed.

This was bought as gift for a movie buff who loved it.

Un gran libro con alta calidad y explicaciones sencillas, de manera amigable ilustradas, y como indica en la portada, con grandes ideas simplemente explicadas. Descripciones breves y a modo de referencia sin duda alguna de mucha utilidad. Muy recomendable.

Great and informative book, perfect as a present

When I bought this book I saw that it was a series, and after reading this book, I'm sold. This book is so well set up that it's easy to go from movie to movie, starting with the 1902-1931 visionary movies. I have to admit that I haven't seen many of these but they are laid out on a time line that shows how the movies slowly built from a 46 second short to movies with talking in them, though the last movie of this series is the Charlie Chaplin hit silent movie City Lights. Each movie is broken down to in context which gives you the genre, director, writers, stars and then some movies that have either come before, or after the title movie. There's a box where you learn a little something about the director and other movies he also directed. In large block letters above the title of the movie, there is whatever saying the movie might be famous for. The book is broken up into these sections. Visionaries 1902-1931 A Golden Age In Black And White 1931-1949 Fear And Wonder 1950-1959 Rebel Rebel 1960-1974 Angels And Monsters 1975-1991 Small World 1992-Present There were many movies I'd never seen, yet with this book, I feel as if I can get the main theme of the movie, who was in it, who directed and why it's significant. There are even gems like Travis Bickle's(Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver) transformation, something you might not have realized or seen drawn out so clearly. With it's wonderful movie photos, this book reminds me of the books I used to buy for the kids(the Ripley's believe it or not). I really enjoyed this book and will be looking for other books in the series that have a subject that sparks my interest.