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A world history of film / Robert Sklar.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.A1 S555 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sklar, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 600 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
- Summary:
- Covering a wide variety of classics as well as recent films, Robert Sklar's highly informative and entertaining history of motion pictures is the standout volume in the field. With a global perspective and exceptional breadth and quality of illustrations, it authoritatively covers the technological and stylistic developments of movies in the rich context of culture, politics, society, and other arts.
- Contents:
- Cinema, society, and science
- Early cinema
- Film as art and industry
- The global spread of film
- Hollywood in the 1920s
- The cinemas of Europe
- Soviet cinema
- The transition to sound
- Hollywood genres
- Meeting Hollywood's challenge
- Documentary, propaganda, and politics
- Film and World War II
- Italian neorealism
- Hollywood's struggles
- Art cinema of Europe and Asia
- Hollywood in the 1950s
- The French new wave
- Cinema of liberation
- The new documentary
- American film : turmoil and transformation
- European films of the 1960s and 1970s
- Hollywood recovery
- The cinematic avant-garde
- The global advance of cinema
- English-language art cinema
- New European film
- World cinema
- American cinema : special effects and beyond.
- Notes:
- "This is a revised and expanded edition of Film: an international history of the medium, published in 1993 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 554-559) and index.
- Filmography: pages 565-579.
- ISBN:
- 0810906066
- 0130340499
- OCLC:
- 46713129
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