num_pages: 380
description: Anthology Film Archives is unique among the cinematheques of the world in that it selects, preserves, and exhibits a body of essential films which attempts to define the art of film-making. The Essential Cinema combines some of the polemical, critical, and scholarly activities of Anthology Film Archives in book form.
language: English
title: The Essential Cinema
titlecomplete: The Essential Cinema
ratings_count: 6
publisher: New York University Press