Flashback: A Brief History of Film

by Giannetti, Louis; Eyman, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780130186621
• ISBN10: 0130186627
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Film and Film History in departments of English and Communications. Consolidating major figures and film movements into their decade of greatest influence or prestige, this no-nonsense book offers a generously illustrated, concise, and very readable history of fiction movies with an emphasis on American cinema. Eclectic in methodology and written in a plain English style that students can relate to, it examines the full scope of traditional film history and criticism, viewing film as both an art and an industryas it mirrors popular audience values, social ideologies, and historical epochs.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	ix
Beginnings	2	(18)
Griffith and His Contemporaries: 1908--1920	20	(26)
American Cinema in the 1920s	46	(36)
Major Filmmakers	50	(24)
Talkies	74	(8)
European Cinema in the 1920s	82	(28)
Soviet Union	84	(8)
Germany	92	(9)
France	101	(9)
The Hollywood Studio System	110
The Box Office	112	(3)
The Studio System	115	(9)
The Star System	124	(5)
The System of Genres	129
American Cinema in the 1930s	38	(134)
The Talkie Era	140	(3)
New Genres: Gangster Pictures, Musicals, Screwball Comedy	143	(10)
Major Filmmakers	153	(19)
European Cinema in the 1930s	172	(24)
Germany	174	(5)
Great Britain	179	(5)
France	184	(12)
American Cinema in the 1940s	196	(28)
Decline of the Studio System	199	(1)
World War II	200	(2)
Major Filmmakers	202	(18)
Film Noir and Postwar Realism	220	(4)
European Cinema in the 1940s	224	(30)
Germany	227	(2)
France	229	(2)
Soviet Union	231	(2)
Great Britain	233	(7)
Italy	240	(14)
American Cinema in the 1950s	254	(32)
New Screens	258	(3)
The Red Scare	261	(3)
Social Realism	264	(3)
Method Acting	267	(6)
Major Filmmakers	273	(13)
International Cinema in the 1950s	286	(32)
Japan	288	(16)
Ingmar Bergman	304	(5)
Federico Fellini	309	(4)
France	313	(5)
American Cinema in the 1960s	318	(32)
The Bloated Era	320	(4)
Major Filmmakers	324	(10)
New Directions	334	(16)
International Cinema in the 1960s	350	(40)
France	352	(15)
Great Britain	367	(11)
Italy	378	(7)
Eastern Europe	385	(5)
American Cinema in the 1970s	390	(36)
The Vietnam--Watergate Era	392	(5)
The New Cinema	397	(11)
Major Figures	408	(18)
International Cinema in the 1970s	426	(36)
Great Britain	428	(3)
France	431	(2)
West Germany	433	(9)
Italy	442	(5)
Eastern Europe	447	(3)
Australia	450	(7)
The Third World	457	(5)
American Cinema in the 1980s	462	(26)
Technology and the Marketplace	464	(4)
The Reagan Era	468	(2)
The Mainstream	470	(4)
The Mavericks	474	(14)
International Cinema in the 1980s	488	(32)
Great Britain	490	(13)
Western Europe	503	(6)
U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe	509	(2)
The Third World	511	(4)
Japan	515	(5)
American Cinema in the 1990s	520	(32)
The Hollywood Studios	522	(9)
The Bright Side	531	(4)
Major Filmmakers	535	(5)
The Independent Cinema	540	(12)
International Cinema in the 1990s	552	(33)
Hollywood Uber Alles	554	(4)
Great Britain	558	(11)
Ireland	569	(6)
Continental Europe	575	(4)
Emerging Cinemas	579	(2)
Australia and New Zealand	581	(4)
Glossary	585	(8)
Index	593