In Glorious Technicolor
  • Published: 6 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448113521
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

In Glorious Technicolor

A Century of Film and How it has Shaped Us

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6 Oct 2011
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30 Nov 2017
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A personal journey through a glorious century of cinema - from film lover and critic Francine Stock

Film is a communal dream in which our fears and fantasies are revealed. It has influenced our behaviour, intertwined with our politics, helped to forge national identity, galvanise communities against a wartime enemy or warn of social upheaval. It has burrowed deep into our psyche, changing perceptions of history and memory, and even raised our romantic expectations.

Despite decades of rapid change, we are still hypnotised and seduced by the power of cinema; it remains our most persuasive mass entertainment. In this fascinating, entertaining and illuminating book Francine Stock takes us on a personal journey through a glorious century of cinema, from the Lumiere brothers' flickering train to the 3D excesses of Avatar, showing in vivid detail how film both reflects and remakes our world.
  • Published: 6 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448113521
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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About the author

Francine Stock

Francine Stock has presented radio and television programmes on current affairs and the arts from BBC 2's Newsnight to Radio 4's Front Row. Since 2004, she has presented The Film Programme. She has also published two novels, A Foreign Country and Man-Made Fibre, and In Glorious Technicolor, a history of cinema.

Praise for In Glorious Technicolor

As a guide to 100 years of cinema, Francine Stock certainly has the credentials... an informative, easy read

Sunday Times

There is much to enjoy in this book, and nuggets of information on recent cinematic developments to be mined

Observer

Smoothly written...Stock clearly knows her onions

Time Out

Her passion for the medium is evident...It would be fascinating to see Stock programme her own film season

Metro

As a book to stimulate discussion as well as inform on the history of the subject, this lively account passes all the tests

Bookbag.co.uk

The text is refreshingly free of the jargon that mars much academic film studies, and Stock writes brilliantly on the allure of the movies

David Evans, Independent on Sunday