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Reviewed on December 15, 2004
This second edition of a book that first came out in 1990 is one of the few general encyclopedias on Hollywood to cover personalities, term definitions, studio histories, events, films genres, job descriptions, and other topics that, in the words of the Siegels, film critics for Variety , seem to "best form a representative collage of the American film industry from Thomas Edison to the present." Most of the 700 alphabetical entries are half a page long, with numerous cross references and a good index to si...Log In or Sign Up to Read More


