š Essential reading • REALISM
for Film Studies
students
• SURREALISM
š Covers all major
• EXPRESSIONISM
movie movements
• AVANT GARDE
š 2009 marks 70th
anniversary of
realist masterpiece
• DIGITAL CINEMA
La Règle du Jeu
• DOCUMENTARY
š 2009 marks 50th
anniversary of • SOVIET MONTAGE
British New Wave
precursor We Are • NATIONAL CINEMA
The Lambeth Boys REVIVALS
MOVIE MOVEMENTS
JAMES CLARKE
The Kamera Book on Movie Movements is a one- It explores, in concise and clear sections, how
stop guide to the major movements that have major works from the classic French realist
shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. La Règle du Jeu to the dazzling animation
It introduces the reader to definitions of the
of Norman McLaren and the memorial
founding concepts in Film Studies such as
documentary of Shoah, were conceived,
authorship and genre, technological impacts
developed and produced, and eventually
and the rise of digital cinema, social influences
received by the public, critics and film history.
and notions of the avant-garde, and cinema’s Offering a concise overview of a vast and
emergence as a major art form that reflects and compelling subject, it’s a book for both the
shapes the world. film enthusiast and the Film Studies student.
James Clarke is the writer of The Pocket Essentials:
£12.99 PAPERBACK WITH FLAPS
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. He has also
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2009
written The Virgin Film Guide: Coppola and The Virgin
194 X 135mm with flaps
Film Guide: War Films. His work has been published
160pp + 8pp COLOUR
by The Guardian and the magazines Empire, Moving
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Pictures and Resurgence. He has also written for the
ISBN: 978-1-84243-305-8
British Film Institute and has worked as a writer and
producer in community media and short filmmaking.
James teaches Film Studies at the University of
Sussex.
www.kamerabooks.com/moviemovements/
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