Cinema Anni '30 / '60

A selection of 50 books on cinema from the 1930s to the 1960s, starting with the seminal volume by Soviet film theorist Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, Film and Phonofilm. Published in 1935, the volume explores fundamental elements of cinematic narrative, analysing the transition from silent to sound films and the impact of the arrival of voice and sound on composition, interpretation and artistic direction.  The review continues with the great season of Italian and French auteur films of the 1950s and 1960s, with a particular focus on the production of Lux Film, founded in Turin in 1935 by RiccardoGualino and then moved to Rome in 1940.