The Endless End of Cinema by Gianluca Sergi, Gary Rydstrom - 9781501348556

The Endless End of CinemaA History of Crisis and Survival in Hollywood\nAuthor(s): Gianluca Sergi, Gary Rydstrom\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781501348556, 978-1501348556\nSynopsis\nFilm is dead!\nThree little words that have been heard around the world many times over the life of the cinema. Yet, some 120 years on, the old dogs ability to come up with new tricks and live another day remains as surprising and effective as ever. This book is an exploration of films ability to escape its own The End title card. It charts the history of cinemas development through a series of crises that could, should, ought to have ended it.\nFrom its origins to Covid - via a series of unlikely friendships with sound, television and the internet - the book provides industry professionals, scholars and lovers of cinema with an informing and intriguing journey into the afterlife of cinema and back to the land of the livin.