The Oxford Companion to Film by Bawden, Liz-Anne (ed) - 1976

New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1976. -----Blue cloth with gilt on spine, headband, 767 pages plus 8 pages of colour photo stills, with b & w photo stills through out book, faint edge wear, ink name on inside front board, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition with mnor edge wear. "Written in clear, concise English, the Companion is world wide in scope & covers all aspects of the medium from "A A" certificate and Bud Abbott to Zoom, Zorro, and Andre Zvoboda. Chosen especially for the Companion, the illustrations are all frame enlargements. Entries, as with all Oxford Companions, are in alphabetical order & include: descriptions with selected credits of 700 individual films chosen for their artistic, commercial, or historical importance / Biographies: of actors, directors, producers, cameramen, script writers, designers, and composers / Histories: of major film production companies, of the development of the industry in the main film-producing countries, and of cinema architecture / Discussions: of movements, genres, the work of major theorists and critics, and topics on which information is not readily available such as propaganda and cenorship / Accounts: of the various screen representstions of real people (Joan of Arc, Fanny Brice, Custer, Al Jolson, etc.) and adaptations of literary classics (Frankenstein, Anna Karenina, Othello, Dracula) / Explanations: of technical processes such as editing, dubbing, and animation. Entries, always to the point and easy to read, are often pungent & entertaining. And in each of the entries, the reader will find a memory recaptured, a disputed claim settled, or a technical area illuminated." Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo.