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A short history of film / Wheeler Winston Dixon & Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2018Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xxxviii, 463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813595122 (pbk.)
  • 0813595126 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.47
LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.5 D621s 2018
Contents:
One. The Invention of the Movies -- Two. The Birth of an American Industry -- Three. World Cinema: The Silent Era -- Four. The Hollywood Studio System in the 1930s and 1940s -- Five. International Cinema through World War II -- Six. Postwar Challenges to the Movies -- Seven. World Cinema in the 1950s -- Eight. The 1960s Explosion -- Nine. World Cinema 1970 to the Present -- Ten. The New Hollywood -- Glossary of Film Terms.
Summary: With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema, an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1993.5 D621s 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000163406

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-415) and index.

One. The Invention of the Movies --
Two. The Birth of an American Industry --
Three. World Cinema: The Silent Era --
Four. The Hollywood Studio System in the 1930s and 1940s --
Five. International Cinema through World War II --
Six. Postwar Challenges to the Movies --
Seven. World Cinema in the 1950s --
Eight. The 1960s Explosion --
Nine. World Cinema 1970 to the Present --
Ten. The New Hollywood --
Glossary of Film Terms.

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema, an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.

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