Flashback : A Brief History of Film

by Giannetti, Louis; Eyman, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780131874572
• ISBN10: 0131874578
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

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 audiences can relate to, it examines the full scope of traditional film history and criticism, viewing film as both an art and an industry as it mirrors popular audience values, social ideologies, and historical epochs.Film discussions include titles such asForrest Gump, Jurassic Park, There's Something About Mary, Face Off, the Lion King, Saving Private Ryan, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, Choosing Amy, The Piano, Menace II Society, Sweet Hereafter, The English Patient, Sense and Sensibility, Shakespeare in live, The Full Monty, The Crying Game, Life is Beautiful, and like Water for Chocolate.For anyone who enjoys going to, and thinking about, the movies.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	ix
About the Author	xi
Beginnings	2	(18)
Griffith and His Contemporaries: 1908--1920	20	(24)
American Cinema in the 1920s	44	(32)
Major Filmmakers	48	(21)
Talkies	69	(7)
European Cinema in the 1920s	76	(26)
Soviet Union	78	(7)
Germany	85	(7)
France	92	(10)
The Hollywood Studio System	102	(26)
The Box Office	104	(3)
The Studio System	107	(8)
The Star System	115	(5)
The System of Genres	120	(8)
American Cinema in the 1930s	128	(30)
The Talkie Era	130	(3)
New Genres: Gangster Pictures, Musicals, Screwball Comedy	133	(8)
Major Filmmakers	141	(17)
European Cinema in the 1930s	158	(22)
Germany	160	(4)
Great Britain	164	(5)
France	169	(11)
American Cinema in the 1940s	180	(26)
Decline of the Studio System	183	(1)
World War II	184	(1)
Major Filmmakers	185	(17)
Film Noir and Postwar Realism	202	(4)
European Cinema in the 1940s	206	(26)
Germany	209	(2)
France	211	(1)
Soviet Union	212	(2)
Great Britain	214	(6)
Italy	220	(12)
American Cinema in the 1950s	232	(28)
New Screens	236	(3)
The Red Scare	239	(2)
Social Realism	241	(2)
Method Acting	243	(6)
Major Filmmakers	249	(11)
International Cinema in the 1950s	260	(28)
Japan	262	(15)
Ingmar Bergman	277	(3)
Federico Fellini	280	(4)
France	284	(4)
American Cinema in the 1960s	288	(28)
The Bloated Era	290	(4)
Major Filmmakers	294	(9)
New Directions	303	(13)
International Cinema in the 1960s	316	(36)
France	318	(13)
Great Britain	331	(10)
Italy	341	(6)
Eastern Europe	347	(5)
American Cinema in the 1970s	352	(32)
The Vietnam--Watergate Era	354	(3)
The New Cinema	357	(11)
Major Figures	368	(16)
International Cinema in the 1970s	384	(34)
Great Britain	386	(2)
France	388	(3)
West Germany	391	(8)
Italy	399	(5)
Eastern Europe	404	(2)
Australia	406	(7)
The Third World	413	(5)
American Cinema in the 1980s	418	(24)
Technology and the Marketplace	420	(4)
The Reagan Era	424	(1)
The Mainstream	425	(4)
The Mavericks	429	(13)
International Cinema in the 1980s	442	(30)
Great Britain	444	(11)
Western Europe	455	(6)
U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe	461	(2)
The Third World	463	(4)
Japan	467	(5)
American Cinema in the 1990s	472	(30)
The Hollywood Studios	474	(8)
The Bright Side	482	(4)
Major Filmmakers	486	(5)
The Independent Cinema	491	(11)
International Cinema in the 1990s	502	(30)
Hollywood Uber Alles	504	(3)
Great Britain	507	(10)
Ireland	517	(6)
Continental Europe	523	(3)
Emerging Cinemas	526	(2)
Australia and New Zealand	528	(4)
Global Cinema Since 2000	532	(39)
Europe	534	(4)
Islamic Cinema	538	(5)
Hong Kong/China	543	(6)
United States	549	(2)
The Hollywood Studios	551	(1)
Technology and the Marketplace	552	(5)
Major Figures and Trends	557	(6)
Emerging Artists	563	(8)
Glossary	571	(8)
Index	579