TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gazetas,Aristides
TI  - An introduction to world cinema
SN  - 9780786439072 (softcover : alk. paper)
AV  - PN 1993.5 G289i 2008
U1  - 791.4309 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Jefferson, N.C.
PB  - McFarland
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - History
KW  - Cine
KW  - Historia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The invention of motion pictures: 1895-1910
Early narratives and the nickelodeons
D.W. Griffith and cinematic language: 1910-1919
UFA and the German studio system: 1919-1925
Critical essay: "Caligari" / Siegfried Kracauer
The impact of D.W. Griffith on Soviet montage: 1919-1925
The French avant-garde tradition and surrealism
Hollywood silent films in the Jazz Age: 1919-1929
Hollywood and the sound films of the 1930s
French cinema of the 1930s
Critical essay: "The evolution of the language of cinema" / André Bazin
The Hollywood golden years: 1930-1945
Italian neorealist cinema: 1945-1954
Critical essay: "Some ideas on the cinema" / Cesare Zavattini
Hollywood at war and postwar paranoia: 1940-1954
Postwar Japanese cinema: 1950-1990
Hollywood in transition and decline: 1955-1962
Symbolist traditions in the cinema: 1950s-1970s
The French New Wave, part one: 1957-1968
The French New Wave, part two: 1959-1980
Critical essay: "L'Année dernière à Marienbad: the narration of narration" / Allen Thiher
Postwar British new cinema: 1956-1972
The Italian cinema of Fellini and Antonioni
Hollywood revival and the anti-myth era: 1964-1976
Critical essay: "Blow-up, swinging London, and the film generation" / Peter Lev
New Italian cinema of Pasolini and Bertolucci
New German cinema
American auteurs: Allen, Altman and Coppola
Revisiting genre films in the 1980s and 1990s
Third cinema and post-colonial narratives in Africa, Latin America and Asia
Critical essay: "From a hybrid place" / Trinh T. Minh-Ha with Judith Mayne
Revisioning history: contesting colonialism
Contemporary Canadian filmmakers: 1987-2007
Cultural politics: contemporary inquiries into a "war on terrorism."
N2  - This textbook introduces the history of film as an art form and also looks at film's impact on society and politics. Each era is examined in the context of several exemplary films commonly viewed in film studies courses
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0812/2008009405.html
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