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A History of Narrative Film

by: Cook, David A.

A History of Narrative Film

by: Cook, David A.

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Copyright: 12/05/2003
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

The Fourth Edition adds an entire chapter on computer-generated imaging, updates filmographies for nearly all living directors mentioned in the text, and includes major new sections that both revisit old content and introduce contemporary trends and movements.

Preface

xix

Preface to the Fourth Edition

xxi

Acknowledgments

xxiii

A Note on Method

xxv

A Note on Dates, Titles, and Stills

xxvii

1 Origins

(28)

Optical Principles

(2)

Series Photography

(2)

Motion Pictures

(4)

Projection: Europe and America

(4)

The Evolution of Narrative: Georges Méliès

(5)

Edwin S. Porter: Developing a Concept of Continuity Editing

(11)

2 International Expansion, 1907-1918

(22)

The United States

(12)

THE EARLY INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION PROCESS

(2)

THE MOTION PICTURE PATENTS COMPANY

(2)

THE ADVENT OF THE FEATURE FILM

(3)

THE RISE OF THE STAR SYSTEM

(1)

THE MOVE TO HOLLYWOOD

(1)

THE NEW STUDIO CHIEFS AND INDUSTRY REALIGNMENT

(1)

THE "BLOCK BOOKING" DISPUTE AND THE ACQUISITION OF THEATERS

(2)

THE RISE OF HOLLYWOOD TO INTERNATIONAL DOMINANCE

(1)

Expansion on the Continent

(10)

THE EMPIRE OF PATHÉ FRÈRES

(2)

LOUIS FEUILLADE AND THE RISE OF GAUMONT

(3)

THE SOCIÉTÉ FILM D'ART

(2)

THE ITALIAN SUPERSPECTACLE

(3)

3 D.W. Griffith and the Development of Narrative Form

(36)

Formative Influences

(1)

The Beginning at Biograph

(1)

Innovation, 1908-1909: Interframe Narrative

(4)

Innovation, 1909-1911: Intraframe Narrative

(3)

Griffith's Drive for Increased Film Length

(2)

Judith of Bethulia and the Move to Mutual

(2)

The Birth of a Nation

(10)

PRODUCTION

(3)

STRUCTURE

(5)

IMPACT

(2)

Intolerance

(6)

PRODUCTION

(2)

STRUCTURE

(1)

INFLUENCE AND DEFECTS

(3)

Griffith after Intolerance

(2)

Decline

(2)

The Importance of Griffith

(3)

4 German Cinema of the Weimar Period, 1919-1929

(26)

The Prewar Period

(2)

The War Years and the Influence of Scandinavia

(1)

The Founding of UFA

(3)

Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari

(3)

The Flowering of Expressionism

(9)

FRITZ LANG

(3)

F.W. MURNAV AND THE KAMMERSPIELFILM

100

(5)

The Parufamet Agreement and the Migration to Hollywood

105

(2)

G.W. Pabst and "Street" Realism

107

(3)

Down and Out

110

(3)

5 Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage, 1917-1931

113

(56)

The Prerevolutionary Cinema

113

(2)

The Origins of Soviet Cinema

115

(1)

Dziga Vertov and the Kino-Eye

116

(2)

Lev Kuleshov and the Kuleshov Workshop

118

(4)

Sergei Eisenstein

122

(36)

THE FORMATIVE YEARS

122

(3)

FROM THEATER TO FILM

125

(2)

THE PRODUCTION OF BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN

127

(1)

THE STRUCTURE OF POTEMKIN

128

(20)

EISENSTEIN'S THEORY OF DIALECTICAL MONTAGE

148

(4)

OCTOBER (TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, 1928): A LABORATORY FOR INTELLECTUAL MONTAGE

152

(3)

EISENSTEIN AFTER OCTOBER

155

(3)

Vsevolod Pudovkin

158

(4)

Alexander Dovzhenko

162

(3)

Other Soviet Filmmakers

165

(2)

Socialist Realism and the Decline of Soviet Cinema

167

(2)

6 Hollywood in the Twenties

169

(36)

Thomas Ince, Mack Sennett, and the Studio System of Production

171

(1)

Charlie Chaplin

172

(5)

Buster Keaton

177

(6)

Harold Lloyd and Others

183

(2)

Hollywood Scandals and the Creation of the MPPDA

185

(2)

Cecil B. DeMille

187

(1)

The "Continental Touch": Lubitsch and Others

188

(2)

In the American Grain

190

(3)

Erich von Strohelm

193

(12)

7 The Coming of Sound and Color, 1926-1935

205

(26)

Sound-on-Disc

205

(1)

Sound-on-Film

206

(2)

Vitaphone

208

(3)

Fox Movietone

211

(1)

The Process of Conversion

212

(2)

The Introduction of Color

214

(7)

Problems of Early Sound Recording

221

(3)

The Theoretical Debate over Sound

224

(3)

The Adjustment to Sound

227

(4)

8 The Sound Film and the American Studio System

231

(58)

New Genres and Old

231

(5)

Studio Politics and the Production Code

236

(3)

The Structure of the Studio System

239

(16)

MGM

240

(1)

PARAMOUNT

241

(2)

WARNER BROS.

243

(1)

20TH CENTURY-FOX

244

(1)

RKO

245

(2)

THE MINORS

247

(3)

"POVERTY ROW"

250

(1)

ETHNIC CINEMA

251

(4)

Major Figures of the Studio Era

255

(34)

JOSEF VON STERNBERG

255

(4)

JOHN FORD

259

(6)

HOWARD HAWKS

265

(3)

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

268

(16)

GEORGE CUKOR, WILLIAM WYLER, AND FRANK CAPRA

284

(5)

9 Europe in the Thirties

289

(38)

The International Diffusion of Sound

289

(1)

Britain

290

(1)

Germany

291

(4)

Italy

295

(1)

The Soviet Union

296

(7)

France

303

(25)

AVANT-GARDE IMPRESSIONISM, 1921-1929

303

(5)

THE "SECOND" AVANT-GARDE

308

(5)

SOUND, 1929-1934

313

(2)

POETIC REALISM, 1934-1940

315

(3)

JEAN RENOIR

318

(9)

10 Orson Welles and the Modern Sound Film

327

(28)

Citizen Kane

328

(16)

PRODUCTION

328

(4)

STRUCTURE

332

(10)

INFLUENCE

342

(2)

Welles after Kane

344

(11)

11 Wartime and Postwar Cinema: Italy and the United States, 1940-1951

355

(32)

The Effects of War

355

(1)

Italy

356

(12)

THE ITALIAN CINEMA BEFORE NEOREALISM

356

(2)

THE FOUNDATIONS OF NEOREALISM

358

(2)

NEOREALISM: MAJOR FIGURES AND FILMS

360

(7)

THE DECLINE OF NEOREALISM

367

(1)

THE IMPACT OF NEOREALISM

367

(1)

The United States

368

(6)

HOLLYWOOD AT WAR

368

(4)

THE POSTWAR BOOM

372

(2)

Postwar Genres in the United States

374

(13)

"SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS" FILMS AND SEMIDOCUMENTARY MELODRAMAS

374

(2)

FILM NOIR

376

(4)

THE WITCH-HUNT AND THE BLACKLIST

380

(4)

THE ARRIVAL OF TELEVISION

384

(3)

12 Hollywood, 1952-1965

387

(44)

The Conversion to Color

387

(2)

Widescreen and 3-D

389

(17)

MULTIPLE-CAMERA/PROJECTOR WIDESCREEN: CINERAMA

389

(1)

DEPTH: STEREOSCOPIC 3-D

390

(2)

THE ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN PROCESSES

392

(3)

THE NONANAMORPHIC, OR WIDE-FILM, WIDESCREEN PROCESSES

395

(2)

ADJUSTING TO WIDESCREEN

397

(2)

THE WIDESCREEN "BLOCKBUSTER"

399

(2)

AMERICAN DIRECTORS IN THE EARLY WIDESCREEN AGE

401

(5)

1950's Genres

406

(19)

THE MUSICAL

406

(1)

COMEDY

407

(4)

THE WESTERN

411

(1)

THE GANGSTER FILM AND THE ANTICOMMUNIST FILM

412

(3)

SCIENCE FICTION

415

(9)

THE "SMALL FILM": AMERICAN KAMMERSPIEL

424

(1)

Independent Production and the Decline of the Studio System

425

(3)

The Scrapping of the Production Code

428

(3)

13 The French New Wave and Its Native Context

431

(50)

The Occupation and Postwar Cinema

431

(7)

ROBERT BRESSON AND JACQUES TATI

434

(2)

MAX OPHULS

436

(2)

Influence of the Fifties Documentary Movement and Independent Production

438

(3)

Theory: Astruc, Bazin, and Cahiers du Cinéma

441

(2)

The New Wave: First Films

443

(2)

The New Wave: Origins of Style

445

(1)

Major New Wave Figures

446

(19)

FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT

447

(3)

JEAN-LUC GODARD

450

(6)

ALAIN RESNAIS

456

(2)

CLAUDE CHABROL

458

(2)

LOUIS MALLE

460

(2)

ERIC ROHMER AND JACQUES RIVETTE

462

(2)

AGNES VARDA, JACQUES DEMP, AND OTHERS

464

(1)

After the Wave

465

(8)

French Cinema in the 1980's and 1990's

473

(5)

The Significance of the New Wave

478

(3)

14 New Cinemas in Britain and the English-Speaking Commonwealth

481

(50)

Great Britain

481

(27)

POSTWAR BRITISH CINEMA AND ITS CONTEXT

481

(4)

THE FREE CINEMA MOVEMENT

485

(1)

BRITISH "NEW CINEMA," OR SOCIAL REALISM

486

(6)

THE END OF SOCIAL REALISM AND BEYOND

492

(16)

Australia and New Zealand

508

(14)

AUSTRALIA

508

(10)

NEW ZEALAND

518

(4)

Canada

522

(9)

15 European Renaissance: West

531

(74)

The Second Italian Film Renaissance

531

(24)

FEDERICO FELLINI

531

(4)

MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI

535

(4)

OLMI, PASOLINI, AND BERTOLUCCI

539

(4)

OTHER ITALIAN AUTEURS

543

(7)

THE ITALIAN EXPLOITATION FILM

550

(5)

Contemporary Widescreen Technologies and Styles

555

(4)

Scandinavian or Nordic Cinema

559

(13)

INGMAR BERGMAN

559

(6)

SWEDEN

565

(2)

FINLAND

567

(1)

DENMARK AND DOGME95

568

(2)

NORWAY AND ICELAND

570

(2)

Spain

572

(10)

LUIS BUÑUEL

572

(6)

NEW SPANISH CINEMA

578

(4)

Germany: Das Neue Kino

582

(6)

POSTWAR ORIGINS

582

(1)

YOUNG GERMAN CINEMA

583

(1)

THE NEW GERMAN CINEMA

584

(1)

VOLKER SCHLONDORFF, ALEXANDER KLUGE, AND MARGARETHE VON TROTTA

585

(3)

International Stature: Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, and Others

588

(18)

RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER

588

(3)

WERNER HERZOG

591

(4)

WIM WENDERS

595

(2)

HANS JÚRGEN SYBERBERG AND OTHERS

597

(2)

JEAN-MARIE STRAUB AND MARXIST AESTHETICS

599

(6)

16 European Renaissance: East

605

(84)

Poland

606

(15)

THE POLISH SCHOOL

606

(6)

THE SECOND GENERATION

612

(3)

THE THIRD POLISH CINEMA

615

(2)

SOLIDARITY AND THE POLISH CINEMA

617

(4)

Former Czechoslovakia

621

(15)

THE POSTWAR PERIOD

621

(3)

THE CZECH NEW WAVE

624

(9)

"BANNED FOREVER"

633

(3)

Hungary

636

(20)

THREE REVOLUTIONS

636

(1)

ANDRAS KOVACS

637

(1)

MIKLÓS JANCSÓ

638

(3)

GAÁL, SZABÓ, AND MÉSZÁROS

641

(4)

OTHER HUNGARIAN DIRECTORS

645

(11)

Former Yugoslavia

656

(13)

PARTISAN CINEMA AND NATIONALIST REALISM

656

(2)

NOVI FILM

658

(4)

THE "PRAGUE GROUP"

662

(7)

Bulgaria

669

(10)

Romania

679

(5)

Other Balkan Countries

684

(5)

17 The Former Soviet Union, 1945-Present

689

(42)

Stalinist Cinema

690

(1)

Cinema during the Khrushchev Thaw

691

(2)

Sergei Parajanov and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

693

(3)

Cinema under Brezhnev

696

(3)

Cinema of the Non-Russian Republics

699

(1)

Baltic Cinema

700

(3)

LITHUANIA

700

(1)

LATVIA

701

(1)

ESTONIA

702

(1)

MOLDAVIA (MOLDOVA)

702

(1)

Transcaucasian Cinema

703

(8)

GEORGIA

703

(4)

ARMENIA

707

(3)

AZERBAIJAN

710

(1)

Central Asian Cinema

711

(9)

UZBEKISTAN

711

(3)

KAZAKHSTAN

714

(2)

KIRGHIZIA (KYRGYZSTAN)

716

(2)

TADJIKISTAN

718

(1)

TURKMENISTAN

719

(1)

Soviet Russian Cinema

720

(4)

Glasnost, Perestroika, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union

724

(7)

18 Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China

731

(64)

Japan

731

(37)

THE EARLY YEARS

731

(2)

SOUND

733

(1)

WAR

734

(1)

OCCUPATION

735

(1)

RASHOMON, KUROSAWA, AND THE POSTWAR RENAISSANCE

736

(7)

KENJI MIZOGUCHI

743

(2)

YASUJIRO OZU

745

(2)

OFFSCREEN SPACE

747

(2)

THE SECOND POSTWAR GENERATION

749

(3)

THE JAPANESE NEW WAVE

752

(6)

JAPANESE FILMMAKING AFTER THE NEW WAVE

758

(6)

DECLINE OF THE STUDIOS

764

(4)

India

768

(9)

SATYAJIT RAY

771

(1)

PARALLEL CINEMA

772

(1)

REGIONAL CINEMAS

773

(4)

China

777

(19)

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

777

(5)

HONG KONG

782

(9)

TAIWAN (REPUBLIC OF CHINA)

791

(4)

19 Third World Cinema

795

(50)

Latin America

796

(23)

MEXICO

798

(3)

BRAZIL

801

(4)

ARGENTINA

805

(3)

BOLIVIA, PERU, AND CHILE

808

(4)

VENEZUELA, COLOMBIA, AND CENTRAL AMERICA

812

(2)

CUBA AND THE NEW LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA

814

(5)

Africa

819

(8)

NORTH AFRICA

819

(3)

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

822

(5)

The Middle East

827

(9)

IRAN

827

(6)

ISRAEL

833

(3)

The Pacific Rim

836

(9)

20 Hollywood, 1965-1995

845

(36)

The New American Cinema

848

(9)

THE IMPACT OF BONNIE AND CLYDE

848

(2)

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

850

(2)

THE WILD BUNCH: "ZAPPING THE CONG"

852

(1)

END OF A DREAM

853

(4)

Hollywood in the Seventies and Eighties

857

(26)

INFLATION AND CONGLOMERATION

857

(4)

NEW FILMMAKERS OF THE SEVENTIES AND EIGHTIES

861

(7)

THE AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRY IN THE AGE OF "KIDPIX"

868

(3)

THE EFFECTS OF VIDEO

871

(10)

21 Hollywood Enters the Digital Domain

881

(48)

Origins of Computer Animation, 1962-1988

Industrial Light & Magic

883

(12)

FROM THE ABYSS TO DEATH BECOMES HER

886

(3)

THE IMPACT OF JURASSIC PARK, 1993-1996

889

(5)

DIGITAL DOMAIN AND TITANIC

894

(1)

Particle Animation, 1996-1997: Twister, Independence Day, and Starchip Troopers

895

(4)

A New "New Hollywood," 1997-1998

899

(6)

The Digital Manipulation of Color: What Dreams May Come, Pleasantville, and Beyond

905

(4)

A New Aesthetic for a New Century

909

(9)

MARTIAN CHRONICLES

909

(2)

BREAD AND CIRCUSES

911

(3)

MILLENNIAL VISIONS

914

(4)

The State of the Art, circa 2002: Moulin Rouge and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

918

(3)

Digital Technology and the Future of Cinema: Three Pearl Harbors, 1953-2001

921

(8)

Glossary

929

(14)

Selective Bibliography, David A. Cook and Aubry D'Arminio

943

(112)

Index

1055

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