Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction 4e is a comprehensive, global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film, from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental. Concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, giving students more realistic points of reference.
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Film History, 4eCHAPTER 1: The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1880s - 1904CHAPTER 2: The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905 - 1912CHAPTER 3: National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism and World War I, 1913 - 1919CHAPTER 4: France in the 1920sCHAPTER 5: Germany in the 1920sCHAPTER 6: Soviet Cinema in the 1920sCHAPTER 7: The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920 - 1928CHAPTER 8: International Trends of the 1920sCHAPTER 9: The Introduction of SoundCHAPTER 10: The Hollywood Studio System, 1930 - 1945CHAPTER 11: Other Studio SystemsCHAPTER 12: Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930 - 1945CHAPTER 13: France: Poetic Realism, the Popular Front and the Occupation, 1930 - 1945CHAPTER 14: Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinema, 1930 - 1945CHAPTER 15: American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945 - 1960CHAPTER 16: Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945 - 1959CHAPTER 17: Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945 - 1959CHAPTER 18: Postwar Cinema Beyond the West, 1945 - 1959CHAPTER 19: Art Cinema and the Idea of AuthorshipCHAPTER 20: New Waves and Young Cinema, 1958 - 1967CHAPTER 21: Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945 - Mid 1960sCHAPTER 22: Hollywood's Fall and Rise, 1960 - 1980CHAPTER 23: Politically Critical Cinema of the 1960s and 1970sCHAPTER 24: Documentary and Experimental Film Since the Late 1960sCHAPTER 25: New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe and the USSR Since the 1970sCHAPTER 26: A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas since 1970CHAPTER 27: Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania since 1970CHAPTER 28: American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy: The 1980s and AfterCHAPTER 29: Toward a Global Film CultureCHAPTER 30: Digital Technology and the Cinema
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ISBN
9780073514246
Publisert
2018-06-15
Utgave
4. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
McGraw Hill Higher Education
Vekt
1517 gr
Høyde
274 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
800

Biographical note

Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of WisconsinMadison, where she earned her Ph.D. Her books include Eisensteins Ivan the Terrible (1981), Exporting Entertainment: Americas Place in World Film Markets 19011934 (1985), Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (1988), Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (1999), Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film after World War I (2005), and The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood (2007). David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of WisconsinMadison. He also holds a Hilldale Professorship in the Humanities and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen. He has also held the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress. His books include Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000; 2nd ed., Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011), Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging(University of California Press, 2005), The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies (University of California Press, 2006), The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He has also written books on Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Sergei Eisenstein, digital cinema, and Hong Kong film.