Short History of the Movies

Name: Short History of the Movies
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ISBN: 9780321262325

ISBN-10: 0321262328

ISBN-13: 9780321262325

Edition: 9th 2006

Authors: Bruce Kawin, Linda Avanzino, Bess Mast, Gerald Mast

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Book details

List price: $108.60
Edition: 9th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Longman Publishing
Publication date: 3/23/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 784
Size: 7.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English




Introductory Assumptions


For Further Reading and Viewing



Birth


Frames per second


Pictures on Film


Speed


Flicker and the Continuous Signal


Persistence of Vision and Other Phenomena


Seeing with the Brain


Visual Masking and Retinal Retention


Early Observations


Separating and Integrating Frames


The Phi Phenomenon and Beta Movement


Short-Range Apparent Motion


Constructing Continuity


Scientific Toys


Emile Reynaud


Photography


Muybridge and Marey


Thomas Edison


W. K-L. Dickson and William Heise


Early Cameras and Films


The Kinetoscope


A Sound Film and Studio


Projection


The Magic Lantern


The Loop and Other Solutions


The Lumiere Brothers


R.W. Paul


The Vitascope


The First Films


For Further Reading and Viewing



Film Narrative, Commercial Expansion


Early Companies


Narrative


George Melies


Cohl and Others


Edwin S. Porter


From Brighton to Biograph


Business Wars


The Film d'Art


For Further Reading and Viewing



Griffith


Apprenticeship


Biograph: The One-Reelers


Two Reels and Up


The Birth of a Nation


Intolerance. 1917-31


Broken Blossoms and Way Down East


The Struggle


For Further Reading and Viewing



Mack Sennett and the Chaplin Shorts


Krazy Keystones


Charlie


For Further Reading and Viewing



Movie Czars and Movie Stars


Stars over Hollywood


The First Stars


California, Here We Come


The Emperors and Their Rule


Major Studios


Movie Palaces


Morality


Sermons and Scandals


The Hays Office


Films and Filmmakers, 1910-28


Thomas Ince


Douglas Fairbanks


DeMille and von Stroheim


Greed


Henry King


Oscar Micheaux and the Race Movie


Webber and Watson


Weber and Women


King Vidor


Lubitsch and Others


Flaherty and the Silent Documentary


The Comics