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Eric Rhode's A History of the Cinema chronologically relates films to the varoius societies form which they emerge and to see them in a social and economic context. It focuses particularly on the interaction between movies and the changes in public consciousness. For the cinema buff, it provides a description of the various means by which film techniques, such as camera movement, editing and composition can elicit feeling and significance