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Film histories : an introduction and reader /
The book is arranged chronologically, and each chapter contains an introduction by the editors on the key developments within the period, followed by a classic piece of historical research about that period. Various types of film history are undertaken in the articles, so that students can become fa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Part I: Film History from its Origins to 1945
- 1. The Emergence of Cinema Extract: Tom Gunning, 'The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, its Spectator and the Avant-Garde'
- 2. Organising Early Film Audiences Extract: Lee Grieveson, 'Why the Audience Mattered in Chicago in 1907'
- 3. Nationalism, Trade and Market Domination Extract: Richard Abel, 'The Perils of Pathé; or the Americanization of Early American Cinema'
- 4. Establishing Classical Norms Extract: Janet Staiger, 'Mass-Produced Photoplays: Economic and Signifying Practices in the First Years of Hollywood'
- 5. The Age of the Dream Palace and the Rise of the Star System Extract: Douglas Gomery, 'The Rise of National Theatre Chains' Afterword by Douglas Gomery
- 6. Competing with Hollywood: National Film Industries outside Hollywood Extract: Thomas Elsaesser, 'Social Mobility and the Fantastic: German Silent Cinema'
- 7. The Rise of the Studios and the Coming of Sound Extract: Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire, 'Translating the Talkies: Diffusion, Reception and Live Performance'
- 8. Realism, Nationalism and 'Film Culture' Extract: Haidee Wasson, 'Writing the Cinema into Daily Life: Iris Barry and the Emergence of British Film Criticism in the 1920s'
- 9. Adjustment, Depression and Regulation Extract: Cynthia Erb, 'From Novelty to Romance: King Kong's Promotional Campaign'
- 10. Totalitarianism, Dictatorship and Propaganda Extract: Richard Taylor, 'Ideology as Mass Entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet Cinema in the 1930s'
- 11. The Common People, Historical Drama and Preparations for War Extract: Tino Balio, 'Columbia Pictures: The Making of a Motion Picture Major, 1930-1943'
- 12. Wartime, Unity and Alienation Extract: Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black, 'What to Show the World: The Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942-1945'.