Movies - John Naughton

The lastest in the Crash Course series which includes ART, OPERA and ARCHITECTURE.
MOVIES - A CRASH COURSE gives you an entree into the pretentious world of the cineaste, those people who won't go near a video store but sit up all night watching re-runs of old Bergman movies instead. From Battleship Potemkin to the Golden Age of Hollywood, from kitchen sink realism to European surrealism, MOVIES - A CRASH COURSE pans across the inspiring landscape of movie history, filling you in on who influenced whom, when and how. Key directors, box-office stars, archetypal scenes, all presented in glorious technicolour and plain English. So next time the lights go up at the end of the movie, you can be the person who says, 'Of course, it hasn't got the class of the original...'