Film history
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell
Contributors: Bordwell, David
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 857
ISBN-13: 9780070064492; 9780070064454
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Cinéma; Filmkunst; Histoire
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Early cinema. The invention and early years of the cinema, 1880s-1904; title: The international expansion of the cinema, 1905-1912; title: National cinemas, Hollywood classicism, and World War I, 1913-1919; title: Pt. 2. The late Silent Era, 1919-1929. France in the 1920s; title: Germany in the 1920s; title: Soviet cinema in the 1920s; title: The late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920-1928; title: International trends of the 1920s; title: Pt. 3. The development of sound cinema, 1926-1945. The introduction of sound; title: The Hollywood studio system, 1930-1945; title: Other studio systems; title: Cinema and the state: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945; title: France, 1930-1945; title: Leftist, documentary, and experimental cinemas, 1930-1945; title: Pt. 4. The Postwar Era, 1946-1960s. American cinema in the Postwar Era, 1946-1967; title: Postwar European cinema: neorealism and other trends; title: Postwar European cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain; title: Postwar cinema beyond the West; title: Art cinema and the idea of authorship; title: New waves and young cinemas, 1958-1967; title: Documentary and experimental cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945; title: Mid-1960s; title: Pt. 5. The contemporary cinema: since the 1960s. Third World cinema, 1960s-1970s; title: Critical political cinema of the 1960s and 1970s; title: Documentary and experimental film since the late 1960s; title: Hollywood's fall and rise: since the 1960s; title: New cinemas and new developments: Europe, The USSR, and the Pacific since the 1970s; title: New cinemas in developing countries since the 1970s.