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The Routledge companion to film history / edited by William Guynn.
Van Pelt Library PN1994 .R5735 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Motion pictures--Dictionaries.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Film history
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Summary:
- The Routledge Companion to Film History is an indispensable guide for anyone studying film history for the first time. The approach taken presents a substantial and readable overview of the field and provides students with a tool of reference that will be valuable throughout their studies. The volume is divided into two parts. The first is a set of 11 essays that approaches film history around the following themes:
- History of the moving image
- Film as art and popular culture
- Production process
- Evolution of sound
- Alternative modes: experimental, documentary, animation
- Cultural difference
- Film's relationship to history
- The second is a critical dictionary that explains concepts, summarizes debates in film studies, defines technical terms, describes major periods and movements, and discusses historical situations and the film industry. The volume as a whole is designed as an active system of cross-references: readers of the essays are referred to dictionary entries (and vice versa) and both provide short bibliographies that encourage readers to investigate topics. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Film history : a thematic approach. Natural magic: a short cultural history of moving images / Erkki Huhtamo
- Film as popular culture / Hilary Radner
- Film as art / Prakash Younger
- The stages of the film production process / William Guynn
- The evolution of sound in cinema / Jay Beck
- Experimental cinema / Wheeler Winston Dixon
- Documentary film / Brian Winston
- Animation / Norman M. Klein
- Filming difference / David Desser
- Making history through media / Marcia Landy
- Inscribing the historical : film texts in context / Rosemarie Scullion
- A critical dictionary : history, theory, technique.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415776561
- 0415776562
- 9780415776578
- 0415776570
- 9780203841532
- 0203841530
- OCLC:
- 368024497
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