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Short History of the Movies, Abridged Ninth Edition, A

by: Kawin, Bruce F.; Mast, Gerald

Short History of the Movies, Abridged Ninth Edition, A

by: Kawin, Bruce F.; Mast, Gerald

ISBN 13:
9780321418210
ISBN 10:
0321418212
Edition: 9th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Longman
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Summary

The essential core of Mast and Kawin's classic in a streamlined volume, offering the most accurate, carefully updated account of cinema today in a clear and lively text.

Preface

Introductory Assumptions

(7)

For Further Viewing

(2)

Birth

(20)

Frames per Second

(2)

Pictures on Film

(1)

Speed

(1)

Flicker and the Continuous Signal

(1)

Persistence of Vision and Other Phenomena

(3)

Seeing with the Brain

(1)

Visual Masking and Retinal Retention

(1)

Scientific Toys

(1)

Emile Reynaud

(1)

Photography

(2)

Muybridge and Marey

(2)

Thomas Edison

(4)

W. K-L. Dickson and William Heise

(1)

Early Cameras and Films

(2)

The Kinetoscope

(1)

A Sound Film and a Studio

(1)

Projection

(5)

The Magic Lantern

(1)

The Loop and Other Solutions

(1)

The Lumiere Brothers

(1)

R. W. Paul

(1)

The Vitascope

(1)

The First Films

(2)

For Further Viewing

(2)

Film Narrative, Commercial Expansion

(18)

Early Companies

(2)

Narrative

(10)

Georges Melies

(2)

Cohl and Others

(1)

Edwin S. Porter

(3)

From Brighton to Biograph

(3)

Business Wars

(2)

The Film d'Art

(2)

For Further Viewing

(2)

Griffith

(24)

Apprenticeship

(9)

Biograph: The One-Reelers

(7)

Two Reels and Up

(1)

The Birth of a Nation

(5)

Intolerance

(3)

1917--31

(5)

Broken Blossoms and Way Down East

(2)

The Struggle

(2)

For Further Viewing

(2)

Mack Sennett and the Chaplin Shorts

(10)

Krazy Keystones

(2)

Charlie

(6)

For Further Viewing

(2)

Movie Czars and Movie Stars

(38)

Stars over Hollywood

(1)

The First Stars

(1)

California, Here We Come

(1)

The Emperors and Their Rule

(6)

Major Studios

(2)

Movie Palaces

(2)

Morality

(1)

Films and Filmmakers, 1910--28

(15)

Thomas Ince

(1)

Douglas Fairbanks

(1)

DeMille and von Stroheim

(3)

Greed

(2)

Henry King

(1)

Oscar Micheaux and the Race Movie

(1)

Webber and Watson

(1)

Weber and Women

(2)

King Vidor

101

(1)

Lubitsch and Others

101

(1)

Flaherty and the Silent Documentary

102

(2)

The Comics

104

(7)

Laurel and Hardy and Hal Roach

104

(1)

Harold Lloyd

105

(1)

Harry Langdon

106

(1)

Buster Keaton

106

(2)

The Gold Rush and The General

108

(3)

Hollywood and the Jazz Age

111

(3)

Jazz, Booze, and It

113

(1)

For Further Viewing

114

(4)

The German Golden Age

118

(19)

Expressionism, Realism, and the Studio Film

118

(2)

Fantasy

120

(6)

Caligari

120

(2)

Metropolis

122

(3)

Nosferatu

125

(1)

Psychology

126

(5)

The Last Laugh

126

(3)

Pabst and die neue Sachlichkeit

129

(2)

The End of an Era

131

(4)

Beyond the Studio

131

(1)

Exodus to Hollywood

132

(1)

Using Sound

133

(1)

Leni Riefenstahl

134

(1)

For Further Viewing

135

(2)

Soviet Montage

137

(19)

The Kuleshov Workshop

137

(2)

Sergei M. Eisenstein

139

(8)

Battleship Potemkin

141

(2)

October

143

(2)

Sound and Color

145

(2)

Vsevolod I. Pudovkin

147

(4)

Mother

147

(3)

Later Works

150

(1)

Other Major Figures

151

(2)

Alexander Dovzhenko

151

(1)

Dziga Vertov

152

(1)

Socialist Realism

153

(1)

For Further Viewing

154

(2)

Sound

156

(10)

Processes

156

(4)

Problems

160

(1)

Solutions

161

(3)

For Further Viewing

164

(2)

France between the Wars

166

(20)

Surrealism and Other Movements

166

(3)

Gance and Dreyer

169

(4)

Abel Gance

169

(2)

The Passion of Joan of Arc

171

(2)

Rene Clair

173

(2)

Jean Renoir

175

(5)

Grand Illusion

176

(1)

The Rules of the Game

177

(3)

Vigo and Others

180

(4)

Jean Vigo

180

(1)

Carne and Prevert

181

(3)

For Further Viewing

184

(2)

The American Studio Years: 1930--45

186

(40)

Film Cycles and Cinematic Conventions

187

(6)

The Production Code

187

(1)

Cycles

188

(1)

Studios and Style

189

(4)

The Comics

193

(9)

Late Chaplin

193

(2)

Disney's World

195

(1)

Lubitsch and Sound

196

(1)

Frank Capra

197

(1)

Preston Sturges

197

(1)

George Cukor

198

(1)

The Marx Brothers

199

(1)

Mae West

200

(1)

W. C. Fields

201

(1)

Masters of Mood and Action

202

(19)

Josef von Sternberg

202

(3)

John Ford

205

(5)

Howard Hawks

210

(1)

Alfred Hitchcock

211

(3)

Orson Welles

214

(7)

For Further Viewing

221

(5)

Hollywood in Transition: 1946--65

226

(32)

Enemies Within: Freedom of Association and Free Entertainment

226

(9)

The Hollywood Ten and the Blacklist

227

(2)

3-D, CinemaScope, Color, and the Tube

229

(6)

Films in the Transitional Era

235

(10)

Freedom of Speech, Preminger, and the Blacklist

236

(1)

Message Pictures: Kazan and Others

237

(1)

Adaptations and Values: John Huston and Others

238

(1)

Film Noir and Other Genres

239

(4)

The Freed Musicals

243

(2)

Surfaces and Subversion

245

(7)

Samuel Fuller

245

(1)

Late Hitchcock

246

(3)

Nicholas Ray

249

(1)

Late Ford

250

(1)

Douglas Sirk

250

(2)

Finding the Audience

252

(2)

For Further Viewing

254

(4)

Neorealism and the New Wave

258

(38)

Italian Neorealism

259

(4)

Roberto Rossellini

259

(1)

De Sica and Zavattini

260

(2)

Luchino Visconti

262

(1)

Romantics and Antiromantics

263

(8)

Federico Fellini

263

(2)

Michelangelo Antonioni

265

(2)

Pasolini and Bertolucci

267

(2)

Germi, Leone, and Others

269

(2)

France---Postwar Classicism

271

(5)

Cocteau and Others

271

(1)

MaxOphuls

271

(3)

Robert Bresson

274

(1)

Tati, Clouzot, and Clement

275

(1)

1959 and After

276

(15)

The New Wave

277

(1)

Francois Truffaut

277

(2)

Jean-Luc Godard

279

(3)

Alain Resnais

282

(2)

Chabrol, Rohmer, and Rivette

284

(1)

Varda, Marker, and the Documentary

285

(3)

Malle and Others

288

(3)

For Further Viewing

291

(5)

National Cinemas 1: 1945-

296

(48)

Sweden and Denmark

296

(7)

Ingmar Bergman

297

(6)

England

303

(10)

Postwar Masters

304

(3)

Another New Wave

307

(1)

From A Hard Day's Night to Masterpiece Theatre

308

(5)

Central and Eastern Europe

313

(5)

The Czech Golden Age

313

(2)

Poland

315

(2)

Hungary

317

(1)

The Balkan States

317

(1)

Cinemas East

318

(19)

Japan

318

(8)

India

326

(5)

China

331

(2)

Taiwan

333

(1)

Hong Kong

334

(1)

Korea

335

(2)

For Further Viewing

337

(7)

Hollywood Renaissance: 1964--76

344

(29)

The New American Auteurs

349

(14)

John Cassavetes

349

(1)

Woody Allen

350

(1)

Robert Altman

350

(2)

Francis Ford Coppola

352

(2)

Martin Scorsese

354

(2)

Malick, De Palma, and Others

356

(4)

Stanley Kubrick

360

(3)

The Independent American Cinema

363

(6)

Early History

363

(1)

The New Film Poets

364

(5)

For Further Viewing

369

(4)

National Cinemas 2: 1968-

373

(40)

Das neue Kino

373

(6)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

374

(2)

Werner Herzog

376

(1)

Wim Wenders

377

(2)

Von Trotta and Others

379

(1)

Third World Cinemas

379

(8)

Emerging Cinemas, Emerging Concerns

380

(2)

Instructive Dramas

382

(2)

Documentaries

384

(1)

Alea and Sembene

385

(2)

Other English-Language Cinemas

387

(8)

Australia

387

(3)

New Zealand

390

(2)

Canada

392

(2)

Ireland and Elsewhere

394

(1)

Russia and the Former Soviet Union

395

(4)

Paradjanov, Tarkovsky, and Others

395

(3)

Glasnost and After

398

(1)

Iran

399

(2)

The New Internationalism

401

(6)

Luis Bunuel

403

(4)

For Further Viewing

407

(6)

The Return of the Myths: 1977-

413

(29)

Star Wars and the New Mythology

416

(4)

Supermen, Slashers, and Cops

416

(2)

Feelgood Movies and Bummers

418

(2)

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