Film histories
Subtitle: an introduction and reader
By: Paul Grainge, Mark Jancovich and Sharon Monteith
Contributors: Jancovich, Mark, author; Monteith, Sharon, author
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780748628940; 9780748670888; 9780748619061; 9780748619078
Subjects: Motion pictures; Historiography; History; PERFORMING ARTS; Film & Video; History & Criticism; Film; Filmgeschichtsschreibung; Filmkunst; Filmindustrie; Cinéma; Histoire et critique; Historiographie; Historia; Historiografi; Filmteori; Filmhistoria
Description: The book is arranged chronologically, and each chapter contains an introduction by the editors on the key developments within the period, followed by a classic piece of historical research about that period. Various types of film history are undertaken in the articles, so that students can become familiar with different types of film historical research. For example, topics include the history of audiences; exhibition; marketing; censorship; aesthetic history; political history; and historical reception studies. The book is therefore designed to provide students with a narrative history spine while simultaneously introducing them to different approaches to the study and research of film history. Concentrating on the plurality of the ́⁰historical turń⁰₉ in film studies, this book demonstrates that film history is, and should be, about more than simply key films, directors and movements.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-584) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Part I: Film History from its Origins to 1945; title: 1. The Emergence of Cinema Extract: Tom Gunning, 'The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, its Spectator and the Avant-Garde'; title: 2. Organising Early Film Audiences Extract: Lee Grieveson, 'Why the Audience Mattered in Chicago in 1907'; title: 3. Nationalism, Trade and Market Domination Extract: Richard Abel, 'The Perils of Pathé; or the Americanization of Early American Cinema'; title: 4. Establishing Classical Norms Extract: Janet Staiger, 'Mass-Produced Photoplays: Economic and Signifying Practices in the First Years of Hollywood'; title: 5. The Age of the Dream Palace and the Rise of the Star System Extract: Douglas Gomery, 'The Rise of National Theatre Chains' Afterword by Douglas Gomery; title: 6. Competing with Hollywood: National Film Industries outside Hollywood Extract: Thomas Elsaesser, 'Social Mobility and the Fantastic: German Silent Cinema'; title: 7. The Rise of the Studios and the Coming of Sound Extract: Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire, 'Translating the Talkies: Diffusion, Reception and Live Performance'; title: 8. Realism, Nationalism and 'Film Culture' Extract: Haidee Wasson, 'Writing the Cinema into Daily Life: Iris Barry and the Emergence of British Film Criticism in the 1920s'; title: 9. Adjustment, Depression and Regulation Extract: Cynthia Erb, 'From Novelty to Romance: King Kong's Promotional Campaign'; title: 10. Totalitarianism, Dictatorship and Propaganda Extract: Richard Taylor, 'Ideology as Mass Entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet Cinema in the 1930s'; title: 11. The Common People, Historical Drama and Preparations for War Extract: Tino Balio, 'Columbia Pictures: The Making of a Motion Picture Major, 1930-1943'; title: 12. Wartime, Unity and Alienation Extract: Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black, 'What to Show the World: The Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942-1945'.