Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Preface | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 5 |
The Invention of Motion Pictures: 1895-1910 | p. 11 |
Early Narratives and the Nickelodeons | p. 21 |
D. W. Griffith and Cinematic Language: 1910-1919 | p. 31 |
UFA and the German Studio System: 1919-1925 | p. 41 |
Critical Essay: "Caligari" | p. 51 |
The Impact of D. W. Griffith on Soviet Montage: 1919-1925 | p. 62 |
The French Avant-Garde Tradition and Surrealism | p. 76 |
Hollywood Silent Films in the Jazz Age: 1919-1929 | p. 86 |
Hollywood and the Sound Films of the 1930s | p. 100 |
French Cinema of the 1930s | p. 109 |
Critical Essay: "The Evolution of the Language of Cinema" | p. 119 |
The Hollywood Golden Years: 1930-1945 | p. 128 |
Italian Neorealist Cinema: 1945-1954 | p. 141 |
Critical Essay: "Some Ideas on the Cinema" | p. 151 |
Hollywood at War and Postwar Paranoia: 1940-1954 | p. 159 |
Postwar Japanese Cinema: 1950-1990 | p. 169 |
Hollywood in Transition and Decline: 1955-1962 | p. 179 |
Symbolist Traditions in the Cinema: 1950s-1970s | p. 190 |
The French New Wave, Part One: 1957-1968 | p. 202 |
The French New Wave, Part Two: 1959-1980 | p. 211 |
Critical Essay: "L'Annee derniere a Marienbad: The Narration of Narration" | p. 219 |
Postwar British New Cinema: 1956-1972 | p. 228 |
The Italian Cinema of Fellini and Antonioni | p. 237 |
Hollywood Revival and the Anti-Myth Era: 1964-1976 | p. 248 |
Critical Essay: "Blow-Up, Swinging London, and the Film Generation" | p. 259 |
New Italian Cinema of Pasolini and Bertolucci | p. 265 |
New German Cinema | p. 275 |
American Auteurs: Allen, Altman and Coppola | p. 282 |
Revisiting Genre Films in the 1980s and 1990s | p. 294 |
Third Cinema and Post-Colonial Narratives in Africa, Latin America and Asia | p. 306 |
Critical Essay: "From a Hybrid Place" | p. 315 |
Revisioning History: Contesting Colonialism | p. 323 |
Contemporary Canadian Filmmakers: 1987-2007 | p. 335 |
Cultural Politics: Contemporary Inquiries into a "War on Terrorism" | p. 344 |
Index | p. 355 |
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.