A Short History of Film / / Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821345403321
• Autore: Dixon Wheeler W. <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 0-8135-9514-2; 1-78684-766-3; 0-8135-9516-9
• Edizione: [Third edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.4309
• Soggetti: Motion pictures - History; Motion picture industry - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- One. The Invention Of The Movies -- Two. The Birth Of An American Industry -- Three. World Cinema: The Silent Era -- Four. The Hollywood Studio System In The 1930S And 1940S -- Five. International Cinema Through World War II -- Six. Postwar Challenges To The Movies -- Seven. World Cinema In The 1950S -- Eight. The 1960S Explosion -- Nine. World Cinema 1970 To The Present -- Ten. The New Hollywood -- Glossary Of Film Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema-especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers-an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.