Malucos do Cinema

The Knowledge

by Martin Oliver, Inês Gromicho (Translator)

Go behind the scenes with this star-studded guide to the movie industry, meet anxious actors and dastardly directors, get animated by an A-Z of cartoon capers and see if the groovy movie screen test gets you on the road to stardom.

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens, Humor

157 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Martin Oliver lives in the United Kingdom.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane]

An informative and amusing introduction to the subject.
The book is well-illustrated and includes some great anecdotes about the movie industry and how it operates.
A few minor criticisms. One of these is that the book focuses almost entirely on the US film industry and Hollywood with barely a mention of the British, European or Asian studios. Secondly, there is at least one error: Mae West and Busby Berkeley are certainly not the only movie figures to have given their names to other things.
Nevertheless, a great little book guaranteed to entertain and interest....

[Matylda]

Naprawdę fajna i przyjemna książka!

[hosemprevissutonelcastello]

Simpatico compendio di aneddoti e curiosità cinematografiche, con tanti quiz per mettere alla prova anche i più esperti.
Peccato che arrivi solo fino agli anni '90.

[Glory]

A perfect combination of humour and information.

[Yue]

Besides a bookworm, I am a cinephile. It has interesting facts I have never heard of (whaat? Humphrey Boggart was shorter than Ingrid Bergman?) but there are also a couple of errors (Emilio Estevez is Charlie Sheen's brother, not his cousin).

[Catarina]

3,5 stars

I love this collection, I have to get my hands on more volumes.

[De]

Crazy facts. Cool illustrations. I need a lot of this kind of movie-info books to escape the Internet.

[TheSuperKim]

Kind of outdated but it was published in 1998 so, can't blame them. Still very informational, though.