A History of Film
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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-