Research Catalog

Title

The cinema book / edited by Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink.

Publication

London : BFI Pub., 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cook, Pam
• Bernink, Mieke
• Cook, Pam, 1943-

Description

x, 406 p. : ill.; 30 cm.

Summary

This 2nd edition of The Cinema Book looks at the recent developments in the field of cinema studies whilst retaining the historical coverage and depth of the original.

Subjects

• Films
• Motion pictures

Genre/Form

• Motion pictures
• Films.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-398) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Classic Hollywood Cinema. The Rise of the American Film Industry. The Studios. Stars. Classic Hollywood Narrative -- pt. 2. Technology. Sound. Colour. Deep Focus. Lighting. Widescreen. Cameras. Alternative Production Formats: 16mm, 8mm, and Video. Editing. The 'New' Technologies -- pt. 3. National Cinemas and Film Movements. German Expressionism and New German Cinema. Soviet Cinema. Italian Neo-Realism. The French Nouvelle Vague. The British Film Industry -- pt. 4. Alternatives to Classic Hollywood. Early Cinema: After Brighton. New Hollywood. Art Cinema. East Asian Cinema. Avant-Garde and Counter-Cinema. Third World and Postcolonial Cinema. Hindi Cinema -- pt. 5. Genre. History of Genre Criticism. The Western. Melodrama. Contemporary Crime. Film Noir. Science Fiction and Horror. The Musical. Teenpics. Comedy. Action-Adventure -- pt. 6. Authorship and Cinema. The Politique Des Auteurs. The Auteur Theory. Auteur Theory and British Cinema. Structuralism and Auteur Study. Auteur Study After Structuralism. Auteurism in the 1990s -- pt. 7. Theoretical Frameworks. Looking at Film. Structuralism and Its Aftermath. Psychoanalysis. Feminist Film Theory. Spectatorship and Audience Research.

ISBN

• 0851707297
• 0851707262 (pbk.)

LCCN

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OCLC

• 44467389
• SCSB-11799148

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library