A History of Film

Author/Artist/Editor

Jack C. Ellis and Virginia Wright Wexman

Number

5th Edition

Language

English

Description

An expansive, multicultural look at the history of film, with illustrations.

Important Notes

Developments prior to 1895 that led to the motion picture --
International childhood of a new medium and art, 1895-1914 --
Rise of the American film, 1914-1919 --
Scandinavian film, 1917-1924 --
Great German silents, 1919-1925 --
Art and dialectic in the Soviet film, 1925-1929 --
French impressionists and the avant-garde, 1919-1929 --
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 --
British wartime semi-documentaries, 1939-1945 --
Postwar realism in Great Britain, the United States, and Italy, 1945-1952 --
Hollywood in the forties, 1940-1952 --
Asian film, 1951 --
The film of the auteur and the French new wave, 1954- --
New Italians, 1960- --
Eastern European cinema, 1954- --
British film, 1956- --
Hollywood in transition: the industry, 1952- --
Third world cinema and recent national movements, 1959 --
American re-evaluation and re-emergence: the art, 1963-

Keywords

Film, film history

ISSN/ISBN

9780133894608

Availability

Available

OCLC

3892586