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A history of film / Virginia Wright Wexman.

Title
A history of film / Virginia Wright Wexman.
Author
Wexman, Virginia Wright
Publication
Boston : Pearson/A & B, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Ellis, Jack C., 1922-
  • Ellis, Jack C., 1922-2009.
Description
x, 494 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Substantially revised for this edition, A History of Film is a comprehensive international survey of film from its beginnings to the present. This text highlights the contributions of major film-producing countries, significant filmmakers, and their films within social, artistic, economic, and technological contexts. This Sixth Edition incorporates major revisions designed to improve the book's focus and provide more balanced coverage."--Jacket.
Subject
Motion pictures > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Rev. ed. of: A history of film / Jack C. Ellis, Virginia Wright Wexman. 5th ed. 2002.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Birth and Childhood of a New Art -- 1895-1914 -- Brief Motion-Picture Records of Actuality and of Performances -- Telling Stories through Staged and Filmed Pantomime -- Telling Stories through Filmic Means -- The Language of Film -- Increasing Films to Feature Length -- Rise of the American Film -- 1914-1919 -- The First American Epics -- A Tradition of Screen Comedy Is Established -- Emerging Patterns of Industry -- Great German Silents -- 1919-1928 -- Predominant Types and Themes -- Principal Technical and Stylistic Advances -- Mirror of the Culture -- Influence on Hollywood -- Art and Dialectic in the Soviet Film -- 1925-1929 -- Historical Setting -- Beginnings -- Three Silent Masters -- Montage: Theory and Practice -- Hollywood in the Twenties -- 1919-1929 -- Movies Become Big Business -- Ascendancy of the Director -- Popular Genres -- Sound Arrives -- France in the Twenties and Thirties -- 1919-1939 -- The First Avant-Garde: Impressionism -- The Second Avant-Garde: Pure Cinema -- The Golden Age of the 1930s -- Hollywood in the Thirties and Early Forties -- 1929-1945 -- The Industry -- Censorship, Self-Regulation, and Pressure Groups -- Notable Directors of the 1930s -- Emergent Genres in the 1930s -- Wartime -- A 1940s Genre: Film Noir -- Orson Welles: Boy Genius -- Postwar Italy: Neorealism and Beyond -- 1945- -- Theory and Practice of Neorealism -- Two Major Directors of the Neorealist Era -- Period of Transition: 1952-1960 -- Emergence of a New Style: Three Directors of the 1960s.
ISBN
020544976X
LCCN
^^2005047645
OCLC
  • 59223903
  • SCSB-12359003
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library