How to quickly find the right movie when the drama is out of stock? A common practice is to log in to a certain balcony or major video websites according to their ratings and popularity. Generally speaking, the better the reputation, the lower the chance of stepping on the mine.
However, fans who love niche movies and have tricky tastes usually need to click on more specific tags to view, such as cult movies or experimental movies. But if you don’t know the exact type, or you can only describe the general direction of interest, you might have to post a post to ask for help from netizens: "There is a movie that is as illogical as a dream, and there are scenes where the eyeballs are cut open. Please recommend similar ones!"
"Andaru Dog ", in 1928, Luis Bunuel
This movie aims to follow the logic of dreams, consisting of a series of irrelevant events, full of many impressive surreal scenes, one of which is the shocking opening - a girl’s eyes are cut open by a razor.
Cough cough, at this time, if you have a movie genre guide, you can quickly and accurately find the movie you like!
The book "Understanding Movies" includes 51 key types of that shape the history of world films, and divides more than 5,400 classic film history to ensure quality and facilitate reference.
More importantly, understands the key movie types to understand various film revolutions, popular trends, film terms and social and historical contexts, and it is these contents that constitute the history of world films.
[English] Ronald Bergen
June 2022
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press-Youshu Zhimei
Small and complete minimalist world movie history
Inside page-Catalog
From the birth of movies in 1895 to the early stage of this century, the book divides movies into five major development periods: silent film era → audio film → war period → post-war period → 1960s and later , explaining 51 movie types including western films, animation films, new wave films, cult films, feminist films, etc.
Each period has a distinctive representative color. It can be quickly positioned during reading and easily clarify the development order of each movie genre.
Inside page - Structure display
Each section in the book has a unified structure and clear logo. It has both concise summary and can link other genres or era backgrounds for in-depth exploration. It also introduces the main directors and representative films of each type, combining points and surfaces, which is conducive to digestion and understanding.
Take the "fantasy film" that has emerged and has been active until now in the silent film era as an example. This type of film usually uses some special effects to make people pay attention to the gap between it and reality. The directors of the fantasy film genre are like magicians who are willing to use tricks and deliberately differentiate between movies and reality.
" Train Entering Station ", In 1895, Lumiere Brothers
Shortly after the movie was born, two completely different factions appeared: Lumiere Brothers' movies tried to capture reality, while George Merrie loves 's movies tried to make the movie deviate from reality.
"Eraser Head", in 1901, George Merrie self-directed and acted by
Merriemer is a magician, animator, inventor, and mechanic. He used illusion photography to present magic-like visual effects, and subsequently invented technologies such as superposition, multiple exposure, pinching, fading and stop-motion animation. For example, in Orchestra (1903), Merrie plays a music master who keeps taking off his head and replacing it with a new one. He kept throwing his replaced head onto a row of telegraph lines, forming a string of notes. The movie "The Moon Travel" (1902) presents an impossible world - a spacecraft crashed into the eyes of the "Moon Man".
"Travel on the Moon", in 1902, George Merrie
The earliest and most well-known fantasy film in the transition stage between animation and movies. Merrie incorporates his imagination into the futuristic novel of Verne , superimposing real grimace shots on the "Moon", creating the effect of the moon being hit by a spacecraft in the eyes.
Merriei set a precedent for fantasy films, and later fantasy films have many sources of inspiration, from Arab folk tales to myths, and then to Harry Potter. Raoul Walsh 's "Moon Palace Treasure Box" (1924) sets a new standard for the special effects of Hollywood . In this movie, Douglas﹒ The hero played by Van Punk climbs on a magic rope, rides a winged horse, and rides a magic carpet and leaps over the roof.
Stills of "Moon Palace Treasure Box"
In addition, some directors who started as animators (such as Tim Bolton , Tree Gilliam and Yang Shiyunmeier) can combine animation and real shots, or look at real shots from an animation perspective.
It should be noted that although Jean Cocto should belong to the surreal faction, in "Beauty and the Beast" (1945), his use of illusions is more to intoxicate the audience than to scare the audience.
"Beauty and the Beast", in 1945, Jean Coctor
Jean Coctor's favorite actor Jean Mare plays a beast in this film. The makeup artist dressed him up very well as a cat-shaped beast. The beast warmly invited the beauty (played by Jusett Day), but did not let the beauty see his true face. The candlestick bottom on the table is made by hand, which is a creative idea proposed by the director to create a magical environment, and was ultimately realized by art director Christian Beral.
In addition to the representative directors mentioned above, other similar works include "The Wizard of Oz", 1939, Fleming; "The Adventures of the Bragging King", 1943, Joseph von Bucky; "The Manuscript of Zaragoza", 1964, Voichech Haas; "The Thieves of Time", 1981, Gilliam; "Alice", 1988, Swinmeier; "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", 2005, Bolton.
Stills of "Alice"
Related types include Expressionist movie , surreal movies, animation movies, recreational movies, and special effects movies. Readers can integrate multiple movie types and construct a system of knowledge. The book also highlights important international film breakthroughs and the contributions of famous directors such as Kurosawa Akira , Fellini and Almodovar to world films, and comprehensively and systematically traces the history of film development.
For example, in the Orientalist Movie Section, Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950) emerged at the Venice Film Festival , opening the door to Japanese movies to enter the Western world . Akira Kurosawa's three works were easily adapted into Western films. He also paid tribute to American movies and popular novels in his works, and adapted the Shakespeare drama twice, moving it to the stage of medieval Japan.
"Chao", in 1985, adapted from Shakespeare's drama "King Lear "
more than 100 authorized high-definition stills
glossary helps you to become a professional movie fan
Each section of the book is equipped with officially authorized movie stills, posters or photos, and more than 100 high-definition pictures freeze the classics of film history. Through these pictures, readers can intuitively understand the characteristics of various types. In the
in the comedy section, , one of the four American silent comedy giants, Buster Keaton , whose works are an excellent example of the combination of comedy and film technology. The amount of laughter in the movie depends on editing, camera position and space-time tension. His film art reached its peak in " General " (1926).
"General", in 1926, Clyde Brookman/Buster Keaton
This real-life film was set during the American Civil War, which is also its special feature. Its cinematography is reminiscent of Matthew Brady 's modern photography. Buster Keaton used props during the shooting, such as the motorcycle of the same name he drove. In the section on the Caligaryist Movie, Robert Vene's "Dr. Caligary's Cabin " (1919) creates a nightmare atmosphere with its stylized, twisted sets, weird angle photography and artificial lighting, becoming the symbol of the 1920s German film.
"Dr. Caligary's Cabin", in 1919, Robert Vene, the evil Dr. Caligary (Werner Klaus) takes care of the narcolepsy patient Cesaray (Kangrad Waite). Under Calgary's hypnosis, Cesaray kidnapped Jane Olsen (played by Lil Dagovo) and left her halfway. While most of the plot takes place in the playground, the twisted painted decorations produced by film art designers Walter Lerich, Hermann Valm and Walter Reiman give the whole film a nightmare unreality.
This book has many knowledge points and is highly informative. It is accompanied by a movie genre and classification chronology, commonly used movie terms, and film indexes, which are convenient for movie enthusiasts to read and learn, and understand , the seventh art in one book.
Interior page - Chronology
This is also a list of better films that are more secure than top250. The 450 well-known filmmakers and more than 400 classic films mentioned are all sorted out in the index one by one. Readers can quickly turn to the section of interest and find Corresponding video ~
Interior page - Representative video
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contrasting color section division, bright red logo guides, full of design sense.
text is made of 128g matte powder paper , full color 4 colors printed, warm, delicate and non-reflective, restoring the details of high-definition stills.
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This book is produced by Quarto, an internationally renowned publishing group with a history of 46 years. Its books have been translated into more than 40 languages and are best-selling in more than 50 countries and regions around the world.
"Understanding Movies" is one of the Quarto series books "isms", which takes you to read the representative styles and genres in classic painting art, modern art, architecture, photography and film. Each volume in the
book series sorts out the representative style of this art category in different periods, as well as famous masters and works that have been famous in history. It is a wonderful reading book to clarify the key concepts in art.
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"Understanding" series set (total 5 books)
June 2022
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