A History of Film
Jack C. Ellis(Author)
Pearson (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 24. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-205-16711-1 (ISBN)
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Description
An international survey of the narrative fiction film from its beginnings to the present day. This work includes contributions of major film producing countries, significant film makers, and their films, set within social, artistic, economic and technological contexts. The text also covers important nations and periods in film history - including American, British, French, Italian, German, Asian and Eastern European. The author provides critical interpretation of the work of film makers and important films along with over 200 stills with captions, country, year, director and actors shown. Every chapter includes a list of books and films on the period for further study.
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Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
717 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-16711-1 (9780205167111)
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Content
Birth and childhood at a new art, 1895-1914; rise of the American film, 1914-1919; great German silents, 1919-1925; art and dialectic in the Soviet film, 1925-1929; Hollywood in the Twenties, 1919-1929; sound comes to America, 1927-1935; golden age of French cinema, 1935-1939; Hollywood in the thirties, 1929-1939; wartime and postwar Hollywood, 1940-1952; Italian neorealism, 1945-1952; British film after the war, 1945-1963; Asian film, 1951-; Hollywood in transition, 1952-1962; film of the Auteyr, the French new wave and after, 1954-; new Italians and newer Italians, 1960-; Eastern European cinema, 1954-; American revaluation and re-emergence, 1963-1980; British film, 1963-; Third World cinema and recent national movements, 1959-; here and now - US, 1975-. Appendix: proper nouns - films, institutions and organizations, persons.