Film History: An Introduction: 2025 Release ISE
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 in 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 USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945
13 France: Poetic Realism, The Popular Front, and the Occupation, 1930-1945
14 Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinemas, 1930-1945
Part Four: The Postwar Era, 1945-1960s
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 Post War Era, 1945-Mid 1960s
Part 5: 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 Cinema Since the Late 1960s
25 New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe and the USSR Since the 1970s
26 A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas Since 1970
27 Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania Since 1970
Part 6: 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
This new release of Film History is a comprehensive global survey of film and its many genres - from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental - written by three of the discipline's leading scholars. Concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, giving students more realistic and relevant points of reference than publicity stills. In addition, 100 film clips with commentary are conveniently embedded in the ebook (available standalone and through Connect® and McGraw Hill GO). Film History is a text that any serious film scholar - professor, undergraduate, or graduate student - will want to read and keep.
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