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A short history of the movies.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mast, Gerald, 1940-1988.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 463 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus, [1971]
- Contents:
- Introductory assumptions
- Birth
- Film narrative, commerical 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
- Years of transition
- Toward today : Italy and France
- Toward today : There and here
- Past and future : Some concluding notes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mast, Gerald, 1940- Short history of the movies.
- ISBN:
- 0672535947
- 9780672535949
- 0672635941
- 9780672635946
- OCLC:
- 150467
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