The main thing in the history of cinema. Films, genres, techniques, directions

About the book
Each of the varieties of cinema - experimental, documentary, short and animated - deserves a separate story, and a superficial review would have diminished their achievements. This book explores how commercial, independent and arthous cinema arose, bloomed and continued to adapt to changes throughout the troubled century.
The book describes the main directions and genres of cinema, as well as forming techniques. Films are considered, each of which brought pleasure, shocked, asked uncomfortable questions and carried away, from the innovative early ribbons Charlie Chaplin to rethinking the criminal genre by Quentin Tarantino.
The book has four sections: genres, key films, directions and techniques. Each section can be read in any order, and in the lower part of each page you can find links to other sections. The line sets out key achievements and biographies of directors.

From the author
In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumier brought the Parisian public in delight with their ten short films. At this time, inventors from around the world developed technology for fixing and demonstrating moving images. The fact that Louis Lyumier considered a fashionable dummy over the next twenty years has grown to a huge industry, and subsequently turned into the main entertainment and, according to critics, determining the artistic agent of the twentieth century.
Cinema developed by seven -mini steps with both artistic and technological points of view. From the moment when two frames were first glued together, cinema began to rapidly develop a specific and at the same time universal language. The movement inside the frame was accompanied by the movements of the chamber (panoramas, travellings, crane movements, shooting from above), fixing actions and emotions at any distances - from afar, down or using super -circular plans. At the same time, various cinematic genres arose - some of them were easily categorized, while others rejected all classification or interpretation. Not only entertainment films were shot, but also those that expanded the ideas about what cinema is capable of. Modernism triumphed over other directions, and the movie became the seventh art, transforming and transcendental