Film History : An Introduction
ISBN: 9780073386133 | 0073386138
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 2/17/2009
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Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies,Film History: An Introductionis a comprehensive, global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film, from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental. As with the authors' bestsellingFilm Art: An Introduction(now in its eighth edition), concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that rely on publicity stills. . . ..The third edition ofFil... MORE
| Preface | |
| Introduction: Film History and How It Is Done Why Do We Care About Old Movies? | |
| What do Film Historians Do? | |
| Our Approach to Film History History as Story | |
| Early Cinema | |
| The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1880s-1904 The Invention of the Cinema Early Filmmaking and Exhibition | |
| The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905-1912 Film Production in Europe The Strugg... MORE | |
| National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism and World War I, 1913-1919 The American Takeover of World Markets The Rise of National Cinemas The Classical Hollywood Cinema Small Producing Countries | |
| The Late Silent Era, 1919-1929 | |
| France in the 1920s The French Film Industry after World War I Major Postwar Genres The French Impressionist Movement The End of French Impressionism | |
| Germany in the 1920s The German Situation after World War I Genres and Styles of German Postwar Cinema Major Changes in the Mid- to Late 1920s The End of the Expressionist Movement New Objectivity Export and Classical Style | |
| Soviet Cinema in the 1920s | |
| The Hardships of War Communism, 1918-1920 | |
| Recovery under the New Economic Policy, 1921-1924 | |
| Increased State Control and the Montage Movement, 1925-1930 | |
| Other Soviet Films The Five-Year Plan and the End of the Montage Movement | |
| The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920-1928 | |
| Theater Chains and the Structure of the Industry The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Studio Filmmaking Films for African-American Audiences | |
| The Animated Part of the Program | |
| International Trends of the 1920s "Film Europe" | |
| The "International Style" Film Experiments Outside the Mainstream Industry Documentary Features Gain Prominence Commercial Filmmaking Internationally | |
| The Development of Sound Cinema, 1926-1945 | |
| The Introduction of Sound Sound in the United States Germany Challenges Hollywood The USSR Pursues Its Own Path to Sound The International Adoption of Sound | |
| The Hollywood Studio System, 1930-1945 | |
| The New Structure of the Film Industry Exhibition Practice in the 1930s | |
| Continued Innovation in Hollywood Major Directors Genre Innovations and Transformations Animation and the Studio System | |
| Other Studio Systems Quota Quickies and Wartime Pressures | |
| The British Studios Innovation within an Industry | |
| The Studio System of Japan India | |
| An Industry Built on Music China: Filmmaking Caught between Left and Right | |
| Cinema and the State | |
| The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945 The Soviet Union | |
| Socialist Realism and World War II The German Cinema under the Nazis Italy | |
| Propaganda versus Entertainment | |
| France: Poetic Realism, the Popular Front and the Occupation, 1930-1945 | |
| The Industry and Filmmaking during the 1930s Poetic Realism Brief Interlude | |
| The Popular Front Filmmaking in Occupied and Vichy France | |
| Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinema, 1930-1945 | |
| The Spread of Political Cinema Government- and Corporate-sponsored Documentaries Wartime Documentaries The International Experimental Cinema | |
| The Postwar Era, 1946-1960s | |
| American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1946-1960 1946/1947/1948 | |
| The Decline of the Hollywood Studio System The New Power of the Individual Film The Rise of the Independents Classical Hollywood Filmmaking | |
| A Continuing Tradition Major Directors: Several Generations | |
| Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945-1959 | |
| The Postwar Context Film Industries and Film Culture Italy: Neorealism and After A Spanish Neorealism? | |
| Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945-1959 | |
| French Cinema of the Postwar Decade Scandinavian Revival England: Quality and Comedy | |
| Postwar Cinema Be | |
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