Film history : an introduction /
Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell
- 2nd ed.
- Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c2003
- xx, 788 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Pt. 4. The Postwar Era, 1946-1960s. 15. American cinema in the Postwar Era, 1946-1967. 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 Postwar Era, 1945--Mid-1960s. - Pt. 5. The contemporary cinema: since the 1960s. 22. Hollywood's fall and rise: 1960-1980. 23. Poliitically critical cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. 24. Documentary and experimental film since the late 1960s. 25. New cinemas and new developments: Europe, The USSR, since the 1970s. 26. Beyond the industrialized west: Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region, the middle east, and Africa since the 1970s. - Pt. 6. Cinema in the ageof electronic media. 27. American cinema and the entertainment economy: the 1980s and after. 28. Toward a global film culture. - References. - Further reading. - Bibliography. - Glossary. - Index. Preface. - Introduction: Film History and How It Is Done. - Why Do We Care About Old Movies? - What do Film Historians Do? - Our Approach to Film History. - History as Story. - Pt. 1. Early Cinema. 1. The invention and early years of the cinema, 1880s-1904. 1. The international expansion of the cinema, 1905-1912. 3. National cinemas, Hollywood classicism, and World War I, 1913-1919. - Pt. 2. 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. - Pt. 3. 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.