Short History of Film

Name: Short History of Film
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ISBN: 9780813560557

ISBN-10: 0813560551

ISBN-13: 9780813560557

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

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A Short History of Film, Second Edition, provides a concise and accurate overview of the history of world cinema, detailing the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from 1896 through 2012. Accompanied by more than 250 rare color and black-and-white stills—including many from recent films—the new edition is unmatched in its panoramic view, conveying a sense of cinema's sweep in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as it is practiced in the United States and around the world.Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster present new and amended coverage of the industry in addition to updating the birth and death dates and final works of notable directors. Their…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 2/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Timeline 1832-2012



The Invention of the Movies



The Birth of an American Industry



World Cinema: The Silent Era



The Hollywood Studio System in the 1930s and 1940s



International Cinema through World War II



Postwar Challenges to the Movies



World Cinema in the 1950s



The 1960s Explosion



World Cinema 1970 to the Present



The New Hollywood


Glossary of Film Terms


Bibliography


Index