Research Catalog

Title

A history of film / Virginia Wright Wexman.

Author

Wexman, Virginia Wright

Publication

Boston : Allyn & Bacon, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ellis, Jack C., 1922-

Description

xii, 465 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Substantially revised for the seventh edition, this book highlights the contributions of major film-producing countries, significant filmmakers, and their films within social, artistic, economic, and technological contexts.

Subjects

• History
• Motion pictures > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Rev. ed. of: A history of film / Jack C. Ellis, Virginia Wright Wexman. 5th ed. 2002.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Birth and childhood of a new art, 1895-1914 -- Rise of the American film, 1914-1919 -- Great German silents, 1919-1928 -- Art and dialectic in the Soviet film, 1925-1929 -- Hollywood in the 1920s, 1919-1929 -- France in the 1920s and 1930s, 1919-1939 -- Hollywood in 1930s and early 1940s, 1929-1945 -- Italian neorealism, 1945-1959 -- The documentary impulse: British film after World War II, 1945-1963 -- Hollywood in transition, 1945-1962 -- Japanese film: a pictorial tradition and a modernist edge, 1951- -- Films of the auteurs: the French new wave, 1954-1968 -- Other wester European cinemas: national cinemas or Euro films? 1945- -- Eastern European cinema: film making for the state and beyond, 1954- -- India: a people's cinema, 1956- -- Modernism and metaphor: Italy, 1960- -- American reemergence, 1963-1974 -- Art cinema lite: British film, 1963- -- New theories, new films: France, 1968- -- A blockbuster mentality: the United States, 1975-1993 -- China: three cinemas, 1984- -- Latin America: progressive politics with a tropical beat, 1959- -- Recent national movements, 1966- -- The digital future: the United States, 1994-.

ISBN

• 9780205625284
• 0205625282

LCCN

^^2008050725

OCLC

• 268788562
• SCSB-12446449

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library