Film History: An Introduction: 2025 Release ISE

This new release of Film History is a comprehensive global survey of film and its many genres - from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental - written by three of the discipline's leading scholars. Concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, giving students more realistic and relevant points of reference than publicity stills. In addition, 100 film clips with commentary are conveniently embedded in the ebook (available standalone and through Connect® and McGraw Hill GO). Film History is a text that any serious film scholar - professor, undergraduate, or graduate student - will want to read and keep.

List of contents

Part One: Early Cinema
1 The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1880s-1904
2 The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905-1912
3 National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism, and World War I, 1913-1919
Part Two: The Late Silent Era, 1919-1929
4 France in the 1920s
5 Germany in the 1920s
6 Soviet Cinema in the 1920s
7 The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920-1928
8 International Trends of the 1920s
Part Three: The Development of Sound Cinema, 1926-1945
9 The Introduction of Sound
10 The Hollywood Studio System, 1930-1945
11 Other Studio Systems
12 Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945
13 France: Poetic Realism, The Popular Front, and the Occupation, 1930-1945
14 Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinemas, 1930-1945
Part Four: The Postwar Era, 1945-1960s
15 American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945-1960
16 Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945-1959
17 Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945-1959
18 Postwar Cinema Beyond the West, 1945-1959
19 Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship
20 New Waves and Young Cinemas, 1958-1967
21 Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Post War Era, 1945-Mid 1960s
Part 5: The Contemporary Cinema Since the 1960s
22 Hollywood's Fall and Rise, 1960-1980
23 Politically Critical Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s
24 Documentary and Experimental Cinema Since the Late 1960s
25 New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe and the USSR Since the 1970s
26 A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas Since 1970
27 Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania Since 1970
Part 6: Cinema in the Age of New Media
28 American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy, the 1980s and After
29 Toward a Global Film Culture
30 Digital Technology and the Cinema

About the author

Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where she earned her Ph.D. Her books include Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible (1981), Exporting Entertainment: America’s Place in World Film Markets 1901–1934 (1985), Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (1988), Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (1999), Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film after World War I (2005), and The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood (2007).

David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also holds a Hilldale Professorship in the Humanities and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen. He has also held the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress. His books include Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000; 2nd ed., Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011), Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging(University of California Press, 2005), The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies (University of California Press, 2006), The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He has also written books on Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Sergei Eisenstein, digital cinema, and Hong Kong film.

Jeff Smith is a Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where he earned his Ph.D. He is the author of two books: The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular FilmMusic (1998) and Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds (2014). He has also published several articles and book chapters on the role of sound and music in American cinema. He is currently at work on a book that traces development of the classical Hollywood film score during the 1930s that examines how studios allocated musical resources to films based on their position within the hierarchy of prestige pictures, programmers, and “B” films.

Product details

• Authors: David Bordwell, Bordwell David, Jeff Smith, Kristin Thompson
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781265239770
• ISBN: 978-1-265-23977-0
• Weight: 1476 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Linguistics, Stationery and miscellaneous items