Film History: An Introduction (softcover)

by Thompson, Kristin; Bordwell, David

• ISBN13: 9780070064454
• ISBN10: 0070064458
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-02-01
• Publisher: MCG (Manual)

Summary

Written by two of the leading film scholars, Film History: An Introduction, is the long-awaited, comprehensive survey that not only acknowledges the contributions of Hollywood and films from other U.S. sources, but broadens its scope to examine filmmaking internationally. As with the authors' bestselling Film Art, Fifth Edition, concepts and events are illustrated with actual frame enlargements, giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that use publicity stills. Any serious film scholar -- professor, undergraduate, or graduate student -- will want to see and keep Film History.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: EARLY CINEMA

1. The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema

2. The International Expansion of the Cinema

3. National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism, and World War I

PART TWO: THE LATE SILENT ERA, 1919-1929

4. France in the 1920's

5. Germany in the 1920's

6. Soviet Cinema in the 1920's

7. The Late Silent Era in Hollywood

8. International Trends of the 1920's

PART THREE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUND CINEMA, 1926-1945

9. The Introduction of Sound

10. The Hollywood Studio System

11. Other Studio Systems

12. Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany and Italy

13. France: Poetic Realism, the Popular Front, and the Occupation

14. Leftist Documentary and Experimental Cinemas

PART FOUR: THE POSTWAR ERA, 1946-1960's

15. American Cinema in the Postwar Era

16. Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and Other Trends

17. Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain

18. Postwar Cinema Beyond the West

19. Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship

20. New Waves and Young Cinemas

21. Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era

PART FIVE: THE CONTEMPORARY CINEMA, 1960's TO THE PRESENT

22. Third World Cinema: Mass Production and Revolutionary Politics

23. Critical Political Cinema of the 1960's and 1970's

24. Documentary and Experimental Film

25. Hollywood's Fall and Rise: Since the 1960's

26. New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe, The USSR, and the Pacific Since the 1970s

27. New Cinemas in Developing Countries Since the 1970's Conclusion Bibliography

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