Cinemas of the world
Subtitle: film and society from 1895 to the present
By: James Chapman
Series: Globalities
Publisher: Reaktion
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Social aspects; Motion pictures -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Film history: sources, methods, approaches; World cinemas: theoretical and historical perspectives; title: pt. 2. Silent cinema. Early cinema ; The emergence of national cinemas; title: pt. 3. Hollywood cinema. The dream factory ; New Hollywood ; American genres, American society; title: pt. 4. European cinemas. European cinemas in peace and war ; New waves, new cinemas ; Popular genres, popular pleasures; title: pt. 5. World cinemas. The challenge of Third Cinema ; Bollywood and beyond ; Asiatic cinemas ; Middle Eastern cinemas ; Anglophone cinemas; title: pt. 6. Conclusion. Cinema without frontiers