History of Narrative Film

Name: History of Narrative Film
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ISBN: 9780393968194

ISBN-10: 0393968197

ISBN-13: 9780393968194

Edition: 3rd 1996

Authors: David A. Cook

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This guide to the history of narrative film evaluates important film-makers and assesses film-making techniques. Coverage in the third edition has been extended to Third World cinema in Africa and Asia and to the films of the former Soviet Union.

Book details

List price: $68.20
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1116
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.92" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 4.202
Language: English



Preface


Preface to the Third Edition


Acknowledgments


A Note on Method


A Note on Supplementary Material


A Note on Dates, Titles, and Stills


Origins


International Expansion, 1907-1918


D. W. Griffith and the Development of Narrative Form


German Cinema of the Weimar Period, 1919-1929


Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage, 1917-1931


Hollywood in the Twenties


The Coming of Sound and Color, 1926-1935


The Sound Film and the American Studio System


Europe in the Thirties


Orson Welles and the Modern Sound Film


Wartime and Postwar Cinema: Italy and the United States, 1940-1951


Hollywood, 1952-1965


The French New Wave and Its Native Context


New Cinemas in Britain and the English-Speaking Commonwealth


European Renaissance: West


European Renaissance: East


The Former Soviet Union, 1945-Present


Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China


Third World Cinema


Hollywood, 1965-present


Glossary


Selective Bibliography for the Third Edition


Index