Description:
An updated edition - with completely new chapters - of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins' fascinating 15-hour film documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
Brief description:
Mark Cousins is an Irish-Scottish filmmaker and author. His films - including The Story of Film, The First Movie, The Eyes of Orson Welles, Atomic, I am Belfast, Stockholm My Love and Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema - have won the Prix Italia, a Peabody and the Stanley Kubrick Award. They have premiered at the world's major film festivals. Their themes are looking, cities, cinema, childhood, and recovery.
His other books include Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, and The Story of Looking. He loves walking across cities such as Los Angeles, Moscow, Paris, Beijing, Berlin, London and Mexico City with his camera.
Review Quotes: 'A truly stunning and richly rewarding Magnum Opus.' --The Independent