An introduction to world cinema / Aristides Gazetas.

By:

Gazetas, Aristides, 1930-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2008.Edition: 2nd editionDescription: viii, 370 pages : illutrations ; 26 cmISBN:

9780786439072 (softcover : alk. paper)
0786439076 (softcover : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.4309

LOC classification:

PN 1993.5 G289i 2008

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Contents:

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."

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 1993.5 G289i 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000177523

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."

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.

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