Flashback A Brief Film History

Name: Flashback A Brief Film History
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ISBN: 9780130186621

ISBN-10: 0130186627

ISBN-13: 9780130186621

Edition: 4th 2001

Authors: Louis Giannetti, Scott Eyman

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For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Film and Film History in departments of English and Communications. Consolidating major figures and film movements into their decade of greatest influence or prestige, this no-nonsense book offers a generously illustrated, concise, and very readable history of fiction movies with an emphasis on American cinema. Eclectic in methodology and written in a plain English style that students can relate to, it examines the full scope of traditional film history and criticism, viewing film as both an art and an industryas it mirrors popular audience values, social ideologies, and historical epochs.

Book details

List price: $81.20
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 6/6/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 614
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Scott Eyman is the literary critic of the Palm Beach Post and has written for numerous publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of numerous books including Lion of Hollywood: The Life of Louis B. Mayer, Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise, John Wayne: The Life and Legend, and Pieces of My Heart with Robert Wagner.




Beginnings



Griffith and His Contemporaries: 1908-1920



American Cinema in the 1920s



European Cinema in the 1920s



The Hollywood Studio System



American Cinema in the 1930s



European Cinema in the 1930s



American Cinema in the 1940s



European Cinema in the 1940s



American Cinema in the 1950s



International Cinema in the 1950s



American Cinema in the 1960s



International Cinema in the 1960s



American Cinema in the 1970s



International Cinema in the 1970s



American Cinema in the 1980s



International Cinema in the 1980s



American Cinema in the 1990s



International Cinema in the 1990s


Glossary


Index