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Description of  30-Second Cinema: The 50 most important ideas, genres, and people in the history of movie-making, each explained in half a minute

Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast? Can you reel off a list of New Wave masterpieces, or are you more interested in classic Westerns? Most of us love the movies in one form or another, but very few of us have the all-round knowledge wed like. 30-Second Cinema offers an immersion course, served up in neat, entertaining shorts. These 50 topics deal with cinemas beginnings, with its growth as an industry, with key stars and producers, with global movementsfrom German Expressionism to New Hollywoodand with the movies as a business. By the time youve worked your way through, youll be able to identify the work of George Melies, define auteur theory or mumblecore in a couple of pithy phrases, and youll have broadened your knowledge of global cinema to embrace not only Bollywood but Nollywood, too. All in the time it takes to watch a couple of trailers. Read more