A Short History of the Movies

by Mast, Gerald; Kawin, Bruce F.

• ISBN13: 9780205296859
• ISBN10: 0205296858
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

The seventh edition of A Short History of the Movies continues the tradition that has made it the most widely used textbook ever for college courses in film history. This volume offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film, from the early Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin shorts, through the studio heyday of the 1930s and 1940s and the Hollywood Renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s, to the pictures and their technology appearing in the multiplexes and sound palaces of today. This new edition, which has been revised and rewritten to reflect current scholarship and recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers, represents an accurate, scrupulous updating of a classic.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introductory Assumptions

Birth

Persistence of Vision

Photography

Thomas Edison

Projection

The First Films

Film Narrative, Commercial Expansion

Early Companies

Narrative

Business Wars

The Film d'Art

Griffith

Apprenticeship

The Birth of a Nation

Intolerance

1917-31

Mack Sennett and the Chaplin Shorts

Krazy Keystones

Charlie

Movie Czars and Movie Stars

Stars over Hollywood

The Emperors and Their Rule

Morality

Films and Filmmakers, 1910-28

The Comics

Hollywood and the Jazz Age

The German Golden Age

Expressionism, Realism, and the Studio Film

Fantasy

Psychology

The End of an Era

Soviet Montage

The Kuleshov Workshop

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Vsevolod I. Pudovkin

Other Major Figures

Socialist Realism

Sound

Processes

Problems

Solutions

France between the Wars

Surrealism and Other Movements

Gance and Dreyer

Rene Clair

Jean Renoir

Vigo and Others

The American Studio Years: 1930-45

Film Cycles and Cinematic Conventions

The Comics

Masters of Mood and Action

Hollywood in Transition: 1946-65

Enemies Within: Freedom of Association and Free Entertainment

Films in the Transitional Era

Surfaces and Subversion

Finding the Audience

Neorealism and the New Wave

Italian Neorealism

Romantics and Antiromantics

France Postwar Classicism

1959 and After

The French (and Italian) Revolution

Emerging National Traditions 1: 1945

Sweden and Denmark

England

Central and Eastern Europe

Cinemas East

Hollywood Renaissance: 1964-76

The New American Auteurs

The Independent American Cinema

Emerging National Traditions 2: 1968

Das neue Kino

Third World Cinemas

Up from Down Under, Down from Up Above

Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Iran

The New Internationalism

The Return of the Myths: 1977

Star Wars and the New Mythology

Leading Directors

Business and Technology

The Look of the Future

Appendix: For Further Reading and Viewing

Distributors

Glossary

Acknowledgments

Index

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