Short History of the Movies, A

by Mast, Gerald; Kawin, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780321262325
• ISBN10: 0321262328
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The ninth edition of A Short History of the Movies continues the tradition scrupulously accurate in its details, up-to-date, free of jargon that has made it the most widely adopted textbook for college courses in film history, and now includes a fresh look at "Persistence of Vision" and a new chapter on digital cinema. This volume offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film, from the first movements captured on celluloid, to 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 living rooms of today. This new edition, which has been revised and rewritten to reflect current scholarship, recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers, represents an accurate, scrupulous updating of a classic.

Table of Contents

Preface	x
Introductory Assumptions	1	(11)
For Further Reading and Viewing	8	(4)
Birth	12	(30)
Frames per second	12	(3)
Pictures on Film	12	(1)
Speed	13	(1)
Flicker and the Continuous Signal	14	(1)
Persistence of Vision and Other Phenomena	15	(6)
Seeing with the Brain	15	(1)
Visual Masking and Retinal Retention	15	(1)
Early Observations	16	(1)
Separating and Integrating Frames	16	(1)
The Phi Phenomenon and Beta Movement	17	(1)
Short-Range Apparent Motion	18	(1)
Constructing Continuity	18	(1)
Scientific Toys	19	(1)
Emile Reynaud	20	(1)
Photography	21	(3)
Muybridge and Marey	21	(3)
Thomas Edison	24	(6)
W. K--L. Dickson and William Heise	25	(1)
Early Cameras and Films	26	(2)
The Kinetoscope	28	(1)
A Sound Film and a Studio	29	(1)
Projection	30	(6)
The Magic Lantern	31	(1)
The Loop and Other Solutions	32	(1)
The Lumiere Brothers	33	(1)
R. W. Paul	34	(1)
The Vitascope	35	(1)
The First Films	36	(4)
For Further Reading and Viewing	40	(2)
Film Narrative, Commercial Expansion	42	(27)
Early Companies	42	(3)
Narrative	45	(16)
Georges Melies	46	(3)
Cohl and Others	49	(2)
Edwin S. Porter	51	(5)
From Brighton to Biograph	56	(5)
Business Wars	61	(4)
The Film d'Art	65	(1)
For Further Reading and Viewing	66	(3)
Griffith	69	(34)
Apprenticeship	69	(14)
Biograph: The One-Reelers	70	(9)
Two Reels and Up	79	(4)
The Birth of a Nation	83	(7)
Intolerance	90	(3)
1917--31	93	(8)
Broken Blossoms and Way Down East	95	(4)
The Struggle	99	(2)
For Further Reading and Viewing	101	(2)
Mack Sennett and the Chaplin Shorts	103	(17)
Krazy Keystones	103	(5)
Charlie	108	(10)
For Further Reading and Viewing	118	(2)
Movie Czars and Movie Stars	120	(54)
Stars over Hollywood	121	(4)
The First Stars	121	(2)
California, Here We Come	123	(2)
The Emperors and Their Rule	125	(5)
Major Studios	126	(2)
Movie Palaces	128	(2)
Morality	130	(4)
Sermons and Scandals	132	(1)
The Hays Office	133	(1)
Films and Filmmakers, 1910--28	134	(21)
Thomas Ince	135	(1)
Douglas Fairbanks	136	(1)
DeMille and von Stroheim	136	(5)
Greed	141	(3)
Henry King	144	(1)
Oscar Micheaux and the Race Movie	144	(3)
Webber and Watson	147	(1)
Weber and Women	147	(3)
King Vidor	150	(1)
Lubitsch and Others	151	(1)
Flaherty and the Silent Documentary	152	(3)
The Comics	155	(9)
Laurel and Hardy and Hal Roach	155	(1)
Harold Lloyd	156	(1)
Harry Langdon	157	(1)
Buster Keaton	158	(3)
The Gold Rush and The General	161	(3)
Hollywood and the Jazz Age	164	(5)
Modernism	164	(1)
Jazz, Booze, and It	165	(4)
For Further Reading and Viewing	169	(5)
The German Golden Age	174	(24)
Expressionism, Realism, and the Studio Film	174	(3)
Fantasy	177	(7)
Caligari	177	(1)
Destiny and Metropolis	178	(5)
Nosferatu and Others	183	(1)
Psychology	184	(6)
The Last Laugh	184	(3)
Pabst and die neue Sachlichkeit	187	(3)
The End of an Era	190	(6)
Beyond the Studio	190	(1)
Exodus to Hollywood	191	(2)
Using Sound	193	(1)
Leni Riefenstahl	194	(2)
For Further Reading and Viewing	196	(2)
Soviet Montage	198	(28)
The Kuleshov Workshop	198	(3)
Sergei M. Eisenstein	201	(10)
Battleship Potemkin	204	(2)
October	206	(3)
Sound and Color	209	(2)
Vsevolod I. Pudovkin	211	(7)
Mother	212	(5)
Later Works	217	(1)
Other Major Figures	218	(3)
Alexander Dovzhenko	218	(2)
Dziga Vertov	220	(1)
Socialist Realism	221	(2)
For Further Reading and Viewing	223	(3)
Sound	226	(16)
Processes	226	(5)
Problems	231	(2)
Solutions	233	(6)
For Further Reading and Viewing	239	(3)
France between the Wars	242	(26)
Surrealism and Other Movements	242	(3)
Gance and Dreyer	245	(6)
Abel Gance	246	(3)
The Passion of Joan of Arc	249	(2)
Rene Clair	251	(3)
Jean Renoir	254	(6)
Grand Illusion	255	(2)
The Rules of the Game	257	(3)
Vigo and Others	260	(5)
Jean Vigo	260	(3)
Carne and Prevert	263	(2)
For Further Reading and Viewing	265	(3)
The American Studio Years: 1930--45	268	(60)
Film Cycles and Cinematic Conventions	269	(11)
The Production Code	269	(1)
Cycles	270	(2)
Studios and Style	272	(8)
The Comics	280	(12)
Late Chaplin	280	(2)
Disney's World	282	(1)
Lubitsch and Sound	283	(1)
Frank Capra	284	(2)
Preston Sturges	286	(1)
George Cukor	286	(1)
The Marx Brothers	287	(2)
Mae West	289	(1)
W. C. Fields	290	(2)
Masters of Mood and Action	292	(26)
Josef von Stemberg	292	(3)
John Ford	295	(6)
Howard Hawks	301	(4)
Alfred Hitchcock	305	(4)
Orson Welles	309	(9)
For Further Reading and Viewing	318	(10)
Hollywood in Transition: 1946--65	328	(47)
Enemies Within: Freedom of Association and Free Entertainment	328	(12)
The Hollywood Ten and the Blacklist	329	(2)
3-D, CinemaScope, Color, and the Tube	331	(9)
Films in the Transitional Era	340	(16)
Freedom of Speech, Preminger, and the Blacklist	342	(1)
Message Pictures: Kazan and Others	343	(2)
Adaptations and Values: John Huston and Others	345	(3)
Film Noir and Other Genres	348	(5)
The Freed Musicals	353	(3)
Surfaces and Subversion	356	(10)
Samuel Fuller	356	(2)
Late Hitchcock	358	(3)
Nicholas Ray	361	(2)
Late Ford	363	(1)
Douglas Sirk	364	(2)
Finding the Audience	366	(2)
For Further Reading and Viewing	368	(7)
Neorealism and the New Wave	375	(63)
Italian Neorealism	376	(6)
Roberto Rossellini	376	(2)
De Sica and Zavattini	378	(3)
Luchino Visconti	381	(1)
Romantics and Antiromantics	382	(15)
Federico Fellini	382	(5)
Michelangelo Antonioni	387	(4)
Pasolini and Bertolucci	391	(3)
Germi, Leone, and Others	394	(3)
France---Postwar Classicism	397	(9)
Cocteau and Others	397	(1)
Max Ophuls	398	(5)
Robert Bresson	403	(1)
Tati, Clouzot, and Clement	404	(2)
1959 and After	406	(23)
The New Wave	406	(1)
Francois Truffaut	406	(5)
Jean-Luc Godard	411	(5)
Alain Resnais	416	(4)
Chabrol, Rohmer, and Rivette	420	(1)
Varda, Marker, and the Documentary	420	(4)
Malle and Others	424	(5)
For Further Reading and Viewing	429	(9)
National Cinemas 1: 1945--	438	(78)
Sweden and Denmark	438	(11)
Ingmar Bergman	440	(9)
England	449	(1)
Postwar Masters	449	(15)
Another New Wave	454	(3)
From A Hard Day's Night to Masterpiece Theatre	457	(7)
Central and Eastern Europe	464	(9)
The Czech Golden Age	464	(4)
Poland	468	(3)
Hungary	471	(1)
The Balkan States	471	(2)
Cinemas East	473	(30)
Japan	473	(16)
India	489	(6)
China	495	(4)
Taiwan	499	(1)
Hong Kong	500	(1)
Korea	501	(2)
For Further Reading and Viewing	503	(13)
Hollywood Renaissance: 1964--76	516	(46)
The New American Auteurs	523	(22)
John Cassavetes	523	(2)
Woody Allen	525	(1)
Robert Altman	526	(2)
Francis Ford Coppola	528	(3)
Martin Scorsese	531	(4)
Malick, De Palma, and Others	535	(7)
Stanley Kubrick	542	(3)
The Independent American Cinema	545	(10)
Early History	546	(2)
The New Film Poets	548	(7)
For Further Reading and Viewing	555	(7)
National Cinemas 2: 1968	562	(60)
Das neue Kino	562	(11)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	564	(3)
Werner Herzog	567	(2)
Wim Wenders	569	(3)
Von Trotta and Others	572	(1)
Third World Cinemas	573	(11)
Emerging Cinemas, Emerging Concerns	574	(3)
Instructive Dramas	577	(3)
Documentaries	580	(1)
Alea and Sembene	581	(3)
Other English-Language Cinemas	584	(11)
Australia	585	(3)
New Zealand	588	(2)
Canada	590	(4)
Ireland and Elsewhere	594	(1)
Russia and the Former Soviet Union	595	(5)
Paradjanov, Tarkovsky, and Others	596	(2)
Glasnost and After	598	(2)
Iran	600	(3)
The New Internationalism	603	(8)
Luis Bunuel	606	(5)
For Further Reading and Viewing	611	(11)
The Return of the Myths: 1977--	622	(48)
Star Wars and the New Mythology	626	(7)
Supermen, Slashers, and Cops	627	(2)
Feelgood Movies and Bummers	629	(2)
Popular Heroes and Postmodern Irony	631	(2)
Leading Directors	633	(32)
Lucas and Spielberg	633	(3)
Dark Satire: Lynch, Waters, and Others	636	(7)
The Comic Edge: Burton, Zemeekis, and Others	643	(6)
Politics, Insight, and Violence: Lee, Carpenter, and Others	649	(16)
For Further Reading and Viewing	665	(5)
Conglomerates and Cassettes: 1975--	670	(24)
It's A Wonderful Deal	670	(7)
Sequels and Blockbusters	670	(1)
Conglomerates	671	(1)
For Sale: Studio	672	(1)
The Budget Explosion	673	(1)
Executive Decisions	674	(1)
Theatres	675	(1)
Studio Shakeups	676	(1)
Movies in the Age of Video	677	(15)
Tape and Videotape	678	(1)
Analog and Digital Information	679	(1)
Sampling and Conversion	679	(1)
Videotape Recorders	680	(1)
Cassettes and Discs	681	(1)
DVDs	682	(1)
Out of the Vaults	683	(1)
Pixels and Lines	684	(2)
Film and Video Frames	686	(2)
Changes on the Set	688	(1)
Nonlinear Editing	689	(1)
Copies and Originals	689	(1)
Colorization	690	(1)
Electronic Cinema	690	(2)
For Further Reading and Viewing	692	(2)
Digital Cinema: 1999--	694	(29)
Doing without Film	694	(4)
Beginnings	698	(10)
Production and Distribution	708	(9)
The Look of the Future	717	(3)
For Further Reading and Viewing	720	(3)
Distributors	723	(3)
Glossary	726	(18)
Acknowledgments	744	(3)
Index	747