A World History of Film 0810906066, 9780810906068

'A World History of Film' presents the entire history of motion pictures, from pre-cinema to the present. Prov

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English Pages 600 [301] Year 2002

A World History of Film
0810906066, 9780810906068

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Robert Sklar

Table of contents :
00 - 01. Title page, Table of Contents, Preface
01 - 01. Emergence of Cinema timeline
01 - 02. Chapter One -- Cinema, Society, and Science
01 - 03. Chapter Two -- Early Cinema
01 - 04. Chapter Three -- Film as Art and Industry
02 - 05. The Silent Era timeline
02 - 06. Chapter Four -- The Global Spread of Film
02 - 07. Chapter Five -- Hollywood in the 1920s
02 - 08. Chapter Six -- The Cinemas of Europe
02 - 09. Chapter Seven -- Soviet Cinema
03 - 01. Classic Cinema timeline
03 - 02. Chapter Eight -- The Transition to Sound
03 - 03. Chapter Nine -- Hollywood Genres
03 - 04. Chapter Ten -- Meeting Hollywood's Challenge
03 - 05. Chapter Eleven -- Documentary, Propaganda, and Politics
03 - 06. Chapter Twelve -- Film and World War II
04 - 01. Postwar Transformation timeline
04 - 02. Chapter 13 -- Italian Neorealism
04 - 03. Chapter 14 -- Hollywood's Struggles
04 - 04. Chapter 15 -- Art Cinema of Europe and Asia
04 - 05. Chapter 16 -- Hollywood in the 1950s
05 - 01. The Revival of Cinema timeline
05 - 02. Chapter 17 -- The French New Wave
05 - 03. Chapter 18 -- Cinema of Liberation
05 - 04. Chapter 19 -- The New Documentary
05 - 05. Chapter 20 -- American Film...
06 - 01. The Expansion of Cinema timeline
06 - 02. Chapter 21 -- European Films of the 1960s and 1970s
06 - 03. Chapter 22 -- Hollywood Recovery
06 - 04. Chapter 23 -- The Cinematic Avante-Garde
06 - 05. Chapter 24 -- The Global Advance of Cinema
07 - 01. Cinema Begins its Second Century timeline
07 - 02. Chapter 25 -- English-Language Art Cinema
07 - 03. Chapter 26 -- New European Film
07 - 04. Chapter 27 -- World Cinema
07 - 05. Chapter 28 -- American Cinema
08 - 09. Bibliography, Glossary, Filmography
08. Index & Credits

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