The Film Encyclopedia, First Edition
by Ephraim Katz
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Ephraim Katz′s The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed Bible of the movie industry. With up-to-date additions, this sixth edition features more than 7,500 A-Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including: - Directors, producers, stars, screenwriters, and cinematographers - Styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking - Motion picture studios and film centers - Film-related show more organizations and events - Industry jargon and technical terms - Inventions, inventors, and equipment - Plus, an index of Academy Award winning films and artists, top grossing films, and much more. show lessTags
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This was my successor to Leslie Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion, and it is a much thicker more complete book. Unlike Halliwell's book, it has enough meat to be a pretty fun browse, even now, though not as complete or ultimately as useful as IMDB.
reference book but badly out of date. still good for films and stuff before c. 1980.
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- Canonical title
- The Film Encyclopedia, First Edition
- Original title
- The Film Encyclopedia
- Alternate titles
- Film Encyclopedia
- Original publication date
- 1979
- People/Characters
- Aarfy Aardvark
- Important places
- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Dedication
- To my own star,
Helen,
and little starlets,
Alyssa and Laura - Canonical DDC/MDS
- 791.4303
- Canonical LCC
- PN1993.45
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- Genres
- Reference, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 791.4303 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
- LCC
- PN1993.45 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
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