The Art of Cinema - 90 : A textbook / Red. -st. M. A. Seleznev . - M. : Film art; SPb. : Subscriptions, 2021. - 640 s. + on. 16 s. ISBN 978-5-6046893-4-9 . You hold in your hands a collection of texts selected from almost a thousand issues of the magazine "The Art of Cinema", published from January 1931 to the present day. A collection of articles of the brightest and most typical, changing the face of film science and serving the socio-political agenda - together they add up to a panorama of not only the history of cinema, but the history of the entire Soviet project, the history of people writing and thinking about cinema. To some extent, the history of the 20th century itself - the century of world wars, the century of mass media, the century of moving images For almost a century of existence, the magazine managed to survive many metamorphoses: the publication changed three names. in different years, Sergey Eisenstein and Bela Balash, Maya Turovskaya and Andrei Tarkovsky, Vera Shitova and Sergei Dobrotvorsky visited the regular authors of "IK" ; The position of editor-in-chief was occupied by people of opposite aesthetic and political views ;. The magazine participated in the defeat of formalism and became a forerunner of the thaw, the first to critically rethink its own history and redefine the functions of film criticism in the 90s. Traces of all these transformations are reflected in the architecture of the collection. The book is divided into seven chronological chapters , through which three large narratives pass through the end-to-end motif - about the relationship of Soviet critics with foreign cinema the personalities and heroes of each decade, The key points , The most persistent break through on the pages of the magazine in different periods of time. In addition, this edition is the first part of the anniversary two-volume, the continuation of which will be entirely devoted to the genre of film reviews. The 90th anniversary of The Art of Cinema is today read as the story of the 20th century, whispered to us by the shadows of the big screen.