May 102013
The Film Encyclopedia 7e: The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry
“The best movie reference book, hands down” (Newsweek) is now available in a deftly revised and meticulously updated seventh edition. Ephraim Katz’s celebrated and comprehensive cinema Bible, The Film Encyclopedia, has been lovingly expanded to include new, thorough coverage of independent films, the artistic and technical aspects of filmmaking, and the trends that lie close to the heart of today’s movie buff. Cinephiles will delight in new entries ranging from Sophia Coppola and Wes And
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Gold Standard for Film Information,
Before there was an internet, this was the only single volume comprehensive way to research an actor’s or director’s entire body of work. My father and I always looked in the Leonard Maltin guide to find out who directed or acted in a film and then straight to the Katz for their history.
More importantly, though, we learned the biographical information and context within which these people affected the art and industry of film. Even with IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia, et al, there is still so much more insight in these pages to absorb. Information is easy to gather with a keyboard, but this encyclopedia imparts knowledge, a much more valuable commodity.
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|It’s, Well – Encyclopedic,
Even in the internet age, sometimes you just want to look up a few things. You can pull out this 1,600 page beauty, and find it all, old-school style, sitting on pages in front of you. There is a reason, actually, many reasons, that this standard is in its seventh edition, and it is revised for 2012. You won’t have to wait for this complete source for movies and the film industry to boot up.
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|BEST OF ITS KIND,
I’m using this formidable work since its first
edition and I am extremely pleased to see that,
although Mr. Katz is no longer with us since 1992,
it’s still being published and updated the way it
should be, thanks to Ronald Dean Nolen heading a
caring team.
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