| Edition |
Rev. and expanded ed. |
| Description |
600 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 554-559) and index. |
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Filmography: pages 565-579. |
| Contents |
PART 1 : Emergence of cinema. 1. Cinema, society, and science : The prehistory of cinema -- Recorded movement -- Projected films -- The advent of motion pictures -- Early films --- 2. Early cinema : Rediscovery of early cinema -- Cinematic time -- Edwin S. Porter -- The transformation of early cinema -- The nickelodeon era -- David Wark Griffith --- 3. Film as art and industry : D.W. Griffith and narrative style -- Feature films -- Epic films -- Comedy -- Stars -- Series and serials -- Film and World War I --- 4. The global spread of film : Filmmaking outside Europe and the United States -- Through western eyes -- Architectural exoticism -- Hollywood's global domination. |
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PART 2. The silent era. 5. Hollywood in the 1920s : The rise of Hollywood -- The film director -- The power of stars -- Hollywood genres -- Alternatives to Hollywood --- 6. The cinemas of Europe : German cinema -- French cinema -- International cinema -- The punishment of women --- 7. Soviet cinema : Agit-trains -- Lev Kuleshov -- Sergei Eisenstein -- Dziga Vertov -- Other Soviet filmmakers -- Art and ideology --- 8. The transition to sound : Telecommunications and film sound -- Color and widescreen -- Music and effects track -- The advent of sound -- The art of sound -- Sound and Language. |
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PART 3. Classic cinema. 9. Hollywood genres : The dream machine -- The classical era -- Genre developments -- The production code and its effects -- Hollywood production values -- An establishment cinema -- Orson Welles --- 10. Meeting Hollywood's challenge : State control over cinema -- Filmmaking outside Europe -- Britain -- France --- 11. Documentary, propaganda, and politics : The city symphony -- British documentary -- Films of the left -- Nazi documentary -- United States --- 12. Film and World War II : United States fiction films -- U.S. documentaries -- Britain -- Soviet Union -- Germany, Italy, Japan -- Occupation cinema. |
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PART 4. Postwar transformation. 13. Italian neorealism -- Beginnings of neorealism -- Varieties of neorealism -- Neorealism's legacy ---- 14. Hollywood's struggles -- Political challenges to Hollywood -- Film noir -- Independent production -- Genre revivals --- 15. Art cinema of Europe and Asia -- International cinema -- Japan -- Italy -- Film authors of the 1950s -- Years of fruition --- 16. Hollywood in the 1950s -- Decline or artistic triumph? -- Three-dimension and widescreen films -- Hollywood auteurs -- Genres and movements of the 1950s. |
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PART 5. The revival of cinema. 17. The French new wave -- Critique of French cinema -- The new wave begins -- French film in the 1960s -- Jean-Luc Godard -- French cinema and society --- 18. Cinema of liberation -- The battle of Algiers -- China -- Cinema novo in Brazil -- Latin American cinema -- African cinema -- The Japanese "new wave" --- 19. The new documentary -- Cinema verité -- Direct cinema -- Documentary film and the Vietnam War -- Documentary renaissance --- 20. American film: turmoil and transformation -- The early 1960s -- Movies and social movements -- Genre revision -- The "movie brats." |
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PART 6. The expansion of cinema. 21. European films of the 1960s and 1970s -- The international medium -- The question of national cinema -- Eastern European and Soviet film -- European cinema without borders -- New German cinema --- 22. Hollywood recovery -- Financial revolutions -- The neglected "golden age" -- The new blockbuster -- U.S. films and filmmakers -- African-American filmmakers -- Beyond formula ---- 23. The cinematic avant-garde -- Maya Deren -- Alternative filmmakers of the 1960s -- European alternative cinema -- Alternative cinema in the 1980s -- Alternative nonfiction -- Gay and lesbian cinema --- 24. The global advance of cinema -- Australian cinema -- Cinema of the "three Chinas" -- The end of Soviet cinema -- International art cinema -- The global voice of cinema. |
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PART 7. Cinema begins its second century. 25. English-language art cinema -- American independents -- British art cinema -- Filmmakers of Australia, New Zealand, Canada -- Independent nonfiction --- 26. New European film -- Postcommunist cinema -- Other European filmmakers --- 27. World cinema -- Iranian cinema -- Chinese film -- Contemporary world filmmakers --- 28. American cinema: special effects and beyond -- New technologies -- Hollywood auteurs -- Hollywood genres -- New talent -- The future and the past. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- History.
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Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0810906066 |
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9780810906068 |
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0130340499 |
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9780130340498 |
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0810903881 |
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9780810903883 |
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0810921405 |
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9780810921405 |
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0131833391 |
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9780131833395 |
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