Movie history : a survey

Movie history : a survey / Douglas Gomery and Clara Pafort-Overduin.

How can we understand the history of film?Historical facts don't answer the basic questions of film history. History, as this fascinating book shows, is more than the simple accumulation of film titles, facts and figures. This is a survey of over 100 years of cinema history, from its beginnings...

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Main Author: Gomery, Douglas
Other Authors: Pafort-Overduin, Clara
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > History.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Motion pictures
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The silent cinema 1895-1927. The invention and innovation of the motion pictures
  • The triumph of Hollywood
  • Hollywood establishes the classic narrative style
  • Influential alternatives to Hollywood : European cinema
  • Experiments in filmmaking : the USSR
  • The Hollywood studio era, 1928-1950. The coming of sound & the studio system
  • The first golden age of Hollywood movie making
  • European alternatives to Hollywood : France, Britain, Germany and Italy
  • The television era 1951-1975. Television, wide-screen and colour
  • A transformation of Hollywood movie-making
  • The European art cinema alternative
  • Alternative film industries : the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, South America, Australia and Japan
  • The video to digital era, 1975-2010. Contemporary world cinema history : 1975 and beyond
  • Hollywood thrives.

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