Film histories : an introduction and reader /: an introduction and reader. (©2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paul Grainge, Mark Jancovich and Sharon Monteith.
• Authors: Grainge, Paul, 1972-; Jancovich, Mark; Monteith, Sharon
• Contents: Part I: Film History from its Origins to 1945 -- 1. The Emergence of Cinema Extract: Tom Gunning, 'The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, its Spectator and the Avant-Garde' -- 2. Organising Early Film Audiences Extract: Lee Grieveson, 'Why the Audience Mattered in Chicago in 1907' -- 3. Nationalism, Trade and Market Domination Extract: Richard Abel, 'The Perils of Pathé; or the Americanization of Early American Cinema' -- 4. Establishing Classical Norms Extract: Janet Staiger, 'Mass-Produced Photoplays: Economic and Signifying Practices in the First Years of Hollywood' -- 5. The Age of the Dream Palace and the Rise of the Star System Extract: Douglas Gomery, 'The Rise of National Theatre Chains' Afterword by Douglas Gomery -- 6. Competing with Hollywood: National Film Industries outside Hollywood Extract: Thomas Elsaesser, 'Social Mobility and the Fantastic: German Silent Cinema' 7. The Rise of the Studios and the Coming of Sound Extract: Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire, 'Translating the Talkies: Diffusion, Reception and Live Performance' -- 8. Realism, Nationalism and 'Film Culture' Extract: Haidee Wasson, 'Writing the Cinema into Daily Life: Iris Barry and the Emergence of British Film Criticism in the 1920s' -- 9. Adjustment, Depression and Regulation Extract: Cynthia Erb, 'From Novelty to Romance: King Kong's Promotional Campaign' -- 10. Totalitarianism, Dictatorship and Propaganda Extract: Richard Taylor, 'Ideology as Mass Entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet Cinema in the 1930s' -- 11. The Common People, Historical Drama and Preparations for War Extract: Tino Balio, 'Columbia Pictures: The Making of a Motion Picture Major, 1930-1943' -- 12. Wartime, Unity and Alienation Extract: Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black, 'What to Show the World: The Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942-1945'.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 612 pages)
• Subjects: 791.4309; Motion pictures -- Historiography; Motion pictures -- History; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Historiography; Film; Filmgeschichtsschreibung; Cinéma -- Histoire et critique; Cinéma -- Historiographie; Filmteori; Filmhistoria; Film -- historia; Film -- historiografi; Filmkunst; Filmindustrie; Film; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748628940; 0748628940; 9780748670888; 0748670882
• Related ISBNs: 9780748619061; 0748619062; 0748619070; 9780748619078
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-584) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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