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A short history of the movies / Gerald Mast.
LIBRA PN1993.5.A1 M39 1981b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mast, Gerald, 1940-1988.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Carr, Bruce Christopher (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 499 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [1981]
- Contents:
- Introductory assumptions
- Birth
- Film narrative, commercial expansion
- Griffith
- The comics: Mack Sennett and the Chaplin shorts
- Movie czars and movie stars
- The German Golden Age
- Soviet montage
- Sound
- France between the wars
- The American studio years: 1930-1945
- Hollywood in transition: 1946-1965
- Neorealisms and New Waves
- Emerging national traditions
- The New Hollywood: 1966-1978
- A Sixth American Era?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-472) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has autograph of Bruce Christopher Carr (?)
- ISBN:
- 0226509826 :
- OCLC:
- 7308845
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