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Short History of the Movies, A
ISBN: 9780205537556 | 0205537553
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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The tenth 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. 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 tec... MORE
| Introductory Assumptions | |
| For Further Reading and Viewing | |
| Birth | |
| Frames per second | |
| Pictures on Film | |
| Speed | |
| Flicker and the Continuous Signal | |
| Persistence of Vision and Other Phenomena | |
| Seeing with the Brain | |
| Visual Masking and Retinal Retention | |
| Early Observations |
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