Film history : an introduction

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Film history : an introduction

Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell

McGraw-Hill Education, c2019

4th ed

  • : pbk

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Previous ed.: Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction 4e is a comprehensive, global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film, from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental. Concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, giving students more realistic points of reference.

Table of Contents

Preface Part One: Early Cinema 1 The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1880s - 1904 2 The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905 - 1912 3 National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism and World War I, 1913 - 1919 Part Two: The Late Silent Era, 1919 - 1929 4 France in the 1920s 5 Germany in the 1920s 6 Soviet Cinema in the 1920s 7 The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920 - 1928 8 International Trends of the 1920s Part Three: The Development of Sound Cinema, 1926 - 1945 9 The Introduction of Sound 10 The Hollywood Studio System, 1930 - 1945 11 Other Studio Systems 12 Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930 - 1945 13 France: Poetic Realism, the Popular Front and the Occupation, 1930 - 1945 14 Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinema, 1930 - 1945 Part Four: The Postwar Era, 1945 - 1960s 15 American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945 - 1960 16 Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945 - 1959 17 Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945 - 1959 18 Postwar Cinema Beyond the West, 1945 - 1959 19 Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship 20 New Waves and Young Cinema, 1958 - 1967 21 Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945 - Mid 1960s Part Five: The Contemporary Cinema Since the 1960s 22 Hollywood's Fall and Rise, 1960 - 1980 23 Politically Critical Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s 24 Documentary and Experimental Film Since the Late 1960s 25 New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe and the USSR Since the 1970s Western Europe Eastern Europe and the USSR 26 A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas since 1970New Cinemas, New Audiences 27 Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania since 1970 Part Six: Cinema in the Age of New Media 28 American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy: The 1980s and After 29 Toward a Global Film Culture 30 Digital Technology and the Cinema

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