CASSELL COMPANION TO CINEMA This work is a broad perspective on the first 100 years of film. There are biographies of film-makers from Woody Allen to Franco Zeffirelli and assessments of stars from Mary Pickford to Michelle Pfeiffer. There are plot summaries of numerous films with accounts of how they were made. It also includes articles on the history of cinema, film genres such as New Wave and Spaghetti Westerns, and definitions of technical  terms that include flash cutting and mise-en-scene. Hollywood blockbusters rub shoulders with Ealing comedies and German expressionist films; there is coverage of the flourishing film industries of Australia, India, China and Japan and assessments of films from Poland, Hungary and Russia.