Flashback : A Brief Film History
ISBN: 9780205695904 | 0205695906
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 7/14/2009
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Consolidating major figures and film movements into their decade of greatest influence or prestige, this "no-nonsense" book offers a generously illustrated, concise, and very readable history of fiction movies with an emphasis on American cinema. Eclectic in methodology and written in a plain English style that audiences can relate to, it examines the full scope of traditional film history and criticism, viewing film as both an art and an industry as it mirrors popular audience values, social ideologies, and historical epochs.
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| Preface | |
| Beginnings | |
| Griffith and His Contemporaries: 1908-1920 | |
| American Cinema in the 1920s | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| Talkies | |
| European Cinema in the 1920s | |
| Soviet Union | |
| Germany | |
| France | |
| The Hollywood Studio System;: 1925-1955 | |
| The Box Office | |
| The Studio System | |
| The Star System | |
| The System of Genres | |
| American Cinema in the 1930s | |
| The Talkie Era | |
| New Genres: Gangster Pictures, Musicals, Screwball Comedy | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| European Cinema in the 1930s | |
| Germany | |
| Great Britian | |
| France | |
| American Cinema in the 1940s | |
| Decline of the Studio System | |
| World War II | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| Film Noir and Postwar Realism | |
| European Cinema in the 1940s | |
| Germany | |
| France | |
| Soviet Union | |
| Great Britian | |
| Italy | |
| American Cinema in the 1950s | |
| New Screens | |
| The Red Scare | |
| Social Realism | |
| Method Acting | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| International Cinema in the 1950s | |
| Japan | |
| Ingmar Bergman | |
| Federico Fellini | |
| France | |
| American Cinema in the 1960s | |
| The Bloated Era | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| New Directions | |
| International Cinema in the 1960s | |
| France | |
| Great Britian | |
| Italy | |
| Eastern Europe | |
| American Cinema in the 1970s | |
| The Vietnam-Watergate Era | |
| The New Cinema | |
| Major Figures | |
| International Cinema in the 1970s | |
| Great Britian | |
| France | |
| West Germany | |
| Italy | |
| Eastern Europe | |
| Australia | |
| The Third World | |
| American Cinema in the 1980s | |
| Technology and the Marketplace | |
| The Reagan Era | |
| The Mainstream | |
| The Mavericks | |
| International Cinema in the 1980s | |
| Great Britian | |
| Western Europe | |
| U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe | |
| The Third World | |
| Japan | |
| American Cinema in the 1990s | |
| The Hollywood Studios | |
| The Bright Side | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| The Independent Cinema | |
| International Cinema in the 1990s | |
| Hollywood Uber Alles | |
| Great Britian | |
| Ireland | |
| Continental Europe | |
| Emerging Cinemas | |
| Australia and New Zealand | |
| American Cinema Since 2000 | |
| Major Figures | |
| Emerging Artists | |
| International Cinema Since 2000 | |
| Europe | |
| Islamic Cinema | |
| Hong Kong/China, and Japan | |
| United States | |
| Latin America | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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