Film history : an introduction /
Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell.
- New York : McGraw-Hill, 1994.
- xliv, 857 p., [24] pl.-s. ill.
pt. 1. Early cinema. The invention and early years of the cinema, 1880s-1904 -- The international expansion of the cinema, 1905-1912 -- National cinemas, Hollywood classicism, and World War I, 1913-1919 -- pt. 2. The late Silent Era, 1919-1929. France in the 1920s -- Germany in the 1920s -- Soviet cinema in the 1920s -- The late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920-1928 -- International trends of the 1920s -- pt. 3. The development of sound cinema, 1926-1945. The introduction of sound -- The Hollywood studio system, 1930-1945 -- Other studio systems -- Cinema and the state: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945 -- France, 1930-1945 -- Leftist, documentary, and experimental cinemas, 1930-1945. pt. 4. The Postwar Era, 1946-1960s. American cinema in the Postwar Era, 1946-1967 -- Postwar European cinema: neorealism and other trends -- Postwar European cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain -- Postwar cinema beyond the West -- Art cinema and the idea of authorship -- New waves and young cinemas, 1958-1967 -- Documentary and experimental cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945--Mid-1960s -- pt. 5. The contemporary cinema: since the 1960s. Third World cinema, 1960s-1970s -- Critical political cinema of the 1960s and 1970s -- Documentary and experimental film since the late 1960s -- Hollywood's fall and rise: since the 1960s -- New cinemas and new developments: Europe, The USSR, and the Pacific since the 1970s -- New cinemas in developing countries since the 1970s.
Written by two leading film scholars, this text acknowledges the contributions of Hollywood and films from other US sources, as well as examining film-making internationally. Concepts and events are illustrated with over 1400 frame enlargements.