Picks and Pans Review: Film: An International History of the Medium

UPDATED 12/20/1993 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 12/20/1993 at 01:00 AM EST

by Robert Sklar

This big, glorious book of moviemaking around the globe is a must-have for film buffs. Sklar, professor of Cinema Studies at New York University, presents the history of film from the beginning of moving-image technology a century ago to its place in the world today as craft, art and social commentary. (Abrams, $49.50)