About the book: 1958 / Here is the best work on the history of cinema, written by the French historian Georges Sadoul. It is safe to say that the material collected and processed by Sadul is unprecedented in its volume. Sadoul made the first attempt to consider the history of cinema as a history of the collective work of filmmakers around the world. It is not limited to the consideration and analysis of individual films or the work of individual artists. He does not separate the aesthetic phenomena of cinema from the development of technology, production and exploitation. He simultaneously analyzes the economy, boldly introduces statistical data and for the first time reveals a picture of fierce competition in the struggle to master a new type of influence on the audience..