Film history : an introduction / Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Kristin, 1950-

Contributor:

Bordwell, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

History.

Cine--Historia.

Local Subjects:

Cine--Historia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 780 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, [2010]

Summary:

This book introduce the history of film as it is presently conceived, written, and taught by its most accomplished scholars. However, this book is not a distillation of everything that is known about film history.

Contents:

Part One: Early cinema

1. The invention and early years of the cinema, 1880s-1904

2. The international expansion of the cinema, 1905-1912

3. National cinemas, Hollywood classicism, and World War I, 1913-1919

Part Two: The late silent era, 1919-1929

4. France in the 1920s

5. Germany in the 1920s

6. Soviet cinema i the 1920s

7. The late silent era in Hollywood, 1920-1928

8. International trends of the 1920s

Part Three: The development of sound cinema, 1926-1945

9. The introduction of sound

10. The Hollywood studio system, 1930-1945

11. Other studio systems

12. CInema and the state: The U.S.S.R., Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945

13. France: Poetic realism, the popular front, and the occupation, 1930-1945

14. Leftists, documentary, and experimental cinemas, 1930-1945

Part Four: The postwar era, 1945-1960

15. American cinema in the postwar era, 1945-1960

16. Postwar European cinema: Neorealism and its context, 1945-1959

17. Postwar European cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945-1959

18. Postwar cinema beyond the West, 1945-1959

19. Art cinema and the idea of authorship

20. New waves and young cinemas, 1958-1967

21. Documentary and experimental cinema in the postwar era, 1945-mid-1960s

Part Five: The contemporary cinema since the 1960s

22. Hollywood's fall and rise: 1960-1980

23. Politically critical cinema of the 1960s and 1970s

24. Documentary and experimental film since the late 1960s

25. New cinemas and new developments: Europe and the U.S.S.R. since the 190s

26. A developing world: Continental and subcontinental cinemas since 1970

27. Cinema rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania since 1970

Part Six: Cinema in the age of new media

28. American cinema and the entertainment economy: The 1980s and after

29. Toward a global film culture

30. Digital technology and the cinema.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Thompson, Kristin, 1950- Film history.

ISBN:

9780073386133

0073386138

9780071267946

0071267948

OCLC:

294064466