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    Publisher
    Pearson Education
    ISBN-10
    0205755577
    ISBN-13
    9780205755578
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    2919999

    Product Key Features

    Number of Pages
    800 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Name
    Short History of the Movies
    Publication Year
    2010
    Subject
    Film / History & Criticism, Composition & Creative Writing
    Type
    Textbook
    Author
    Bruce Kawin, Gerald Mast
    Subject Area
    Performing Arts, Language Arts & Disciplines
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    2.1 in
    Item Weight
    51.2 Oz
    Item Length
    9.1 in
    Item Width
    7.4 in

    Additional Product Features

    Edition Number
    11
    Intended Audience
    College Audience
    LCCN
    2009-050874
    Dewey Edition
    22
    TitleLeading
    A
    Dewey Decimal
    791.4309
    Table Of Content
    1. Introductory Assumptions. For Further Viewing. 2. Birth. Frames per second. Pictures on Film. Speed. Flicker and the Continuous Signal. Persistence of Vision and Other Phenomena. Seeing with the Brain. Visual Masking and Retinal Retention. Early Observations. Separating and Integrating Frames. The Phi Phenomenon and Beta Movement. Short-Range Apparent Motion. Constructing Continuity. Scientific Toys. Émile Reynaud. Photography. Muybridge and Marey Thomas Edison. W. K-L. Dickson and William Heise. Early Cameras and Films. The Kinetoscope. A Sound Film and Studio. Projection. The Magic Lantern. The Loop and Other Solutions. The Lumière Brothers. R.W. Paul. The Vitascope. The First Films. For FurtherViewing. 3. Film Narrative, Commercial Expansion. Early Companies. Narrative. George Melies. Cohl and Others. Edwin S. Porter. From Brighton to Biograph. Complexity in Early Film Business Wars. The Film d''Art. For Further Viewing. 4. Griffith. Apprenticeship. Biograph: The One-Reelers. Two Reels and Up. The Birth of a Nation . Intolerance . 1917-31. Broken Blossoms and Way Down East . The Struggle. For FurtherViewing. 5. Mack Sennett and the Chaplin Shorts. Krazy Keystones. Charlie. For FurtherViewing. 6. Movie Czars and Movie Stars. Stars over Hollywood. The First Stars. California, Here We Come. The Emperors and Their Rule. Major Studios. Movie Palaces. Morality. Sermons and Scandals. The Hays Office. Films and Filmmakers, 1910-28. Thomas Ince. Douglas Fairbanks. DeMille and von Stroheim. Greed . Henry King. Oscar Micheaux and the Race Movie. Webber and Watson. Weber and Women. King Vidor Lubitsch and Others. Flaherty and the Silent Documentary. The Comics. Laurel and Hardy and Hal Roach. Harold Lloyd. Harry Langdon. Buster Keaton. The Gold Rush and The General . Hollywood and the Jazz Age. Modernism. Jazz, Booze, and It. For Further Viewing. 7. The German Golden Age. Expressionism, Realism, and the Studio Film. Fantasy. Caligari . Destiny and Metropolis . Nosferatu and Others. Psychology. The Last Laugh . Pabst and die neue Sachlichkeit . The End of an Era. Beyond the Studio. Exodus to Hollywood. Using Sound. Lei Riefenstahl. For FurtherViewing. 8. Soviet Montage. The Kuleshov Workshop. Sergei M. Eisenstein. Battleship Potemkin . October . Sound and Color. Vsevolod I. Pudovkin. Mother . Later Works. Other Major Figures. Alexander Dovzhenko. Dziga Vertov. Socialist Realism. For Further Viewing. 9. Sound. Processes. Problems. Solutions. For Further Viewing. 10. France between the Wars. Surrealism and Other Movements. Gance and Dreyer. Abel Gance. The Passion of Joan of Arc . Rene Clair. Jean Renoir. Grand Illusion . <
    Synopsis
    The eleventh edition of A Short History of the Movies continues its long-standing tradition of scrupulously accurate details, up-to-date information, and jargon-free writing style that has made it the most widely adopted film history textbook. This edition offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film. From the early experiments with motion photography, through the American studio years of the 1930's and 1940's, from Neorealism and the New Wave, up to the present age of digital cinema, A Short History of Film provides a comprehensive presentation of the history of cinema. This eleventh edition has been revised and updated to include current scholarship, recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers., The eleventh edition of A Short History of the Movies continues its long-standing tradition of scrupulously accurate details, up-to-date information, and jargon-free writing style that has made it the most widely adopted film history textbook. This edition offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film. From the early experiments with motion photography, through the American studio years of the 1930's and 1940's, from Neorealism and the New Wave, up to the present age of digital cinema, A Short History of the Movies provides a comprehensive presentation of the history of cinema. This eleventh edition has been revised and updated to include current scholarship, recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers. NEW! Pearson's Reading Hour Program for Instructors Interested in reviewing new and updated texts in Theatre and Film? Click on the below link to choose an electronic chapter to preview... Settle back, read, and receive a Penguin paperback for your time! http://www.pearsonhighered.com/readinghour/theatreandfilm
    LC Classification Number
    PN1993.5.A1M39 2010

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