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Sophisticated in its analytical content, current in its coverage, and informed throughout by fascinating historical and cultural contexts, A History of Narrative Film is one of the most respected and widely read texts in film studies. This Fifth Edition features a new chapter on twenty-first century film, and includes refreshed coverage of contemporary digital production, distribution, and consumption of film. Now 20% shorter, with new four-color design and an updated art program, A History of Narrative Film is also the only film history text available as an ebook.
Author(s): David A. Cook
Edition: 5
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 864
City: New York
Cover (A History of Narrative Film)
Front Matter
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Chapter 01 - Origins
Optical Principles
Series Photography
Motion Pictures
Projection: Europe and America
The Evolution of Narrative: Georges Méliès
Edwin S. Porter: Developing a Concept of Continuity Editing
Chapter 02 - International Expansion, 1907–1918
The United States
Expansion on the Continent
Chapter 03 - D. W. Griffith and the Development of Narrative Form
Formative Influences
The Beginning at Biograph
Innovation, 1908–1909: Interframe Narrative
Innovation, 1909–1911: Intraframe Narrative
Griffith’s Drive for Increased Film Length
Judith of Bethulia and the Move to Mutual
The Birth of a Nation
Intolerance
Griffith after Intolerance
Decline
The Importance of Griffith
Chapter 04 - German Cinema of the Weimar Period, 1919–1929
The Prewar Period
The Founding of UFA
Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari
Fritz Lang
F. W. Murnau and the Kammerspielfilm
The Parufamet Agreement and the Migration to Hollywood
G. W. Pabst and “Street” Realism
Down and Out
Chapter 05 - Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage, 1917–1931
Prerevolutionary Cinema
The Origins of Soviet Cinema
Dziga Vertov and the Kino-Eye
Lev Kuleshov and the Kuleshov Workshop
Sergei Eisenstein
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Alexander Dovzhenko
Socialist Realism and the Decline of Soviet Cinema
Chapter 06 - Hollywood in the Twenties
Thomas Ince, Mack Sennett, and the Studio System of Production
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd and Others
Hollywood Scandals and the Creation of the MPPDA
Cecil B. DeMille
The “Continental Touch”: Lubitsch and Others
In the American Grain
Erich von Stroheim
Chapter 07 - The Coming of Sound and Color, 1926–1935
Sound-on-Disc
Sound-on-Film
Vitaphone
Fox Movietone
The Process of Conversion
The Introduction of Color
Problems of Early Sound Recording
The Theoretical Debate over Sound
The Adjustment to Sound
Chapter 08 - The Sound Film and the American Studio System
New Genres and Old
Studio Politics and the Production Code
The Structure of the Studio System
Major Figures of the Studio Era
The Heritage of the Studio System
Chapter 09 - Europe in the Thirties
The International Diffusion of Sound
Britain
Germany
Italy
The Soviet Union
France
Chapter 10 - Orson Welles and the Modern Sound Film
Citizen Kane
Welles after Citizen Kane
Chapter 11 - Wartime and Postwar Cinema: Italy and the United States, 1940–1951
The Effects of War
Italy
The United States
Postwar Genres in the United States
Chapter 12 - Hollywood, 1952–1965
The Conversion to Color
Widescreen and 3-D
1950s Genres
Independent Production and the Decline of the Studio System
The Scrapping of the Production Code
Chapter 13 - The French New Wave, or Nouvelle Vague, and Its Native Context
The Occupation and Postwar Cinema
Theory: Astruc, Bazin, Auteurism, and Cahiers du cinéma
The New Wave (Nouvelle Vague): First Films
The New Wave: Origins of Style
Major New Wave Figures
After the Wave
French Cinema in the 1980s and the 1990s
The Significance of the New Wave
Chapter 14 - New Cinemas in Britain and the English-Speaking Commonwealth
Great Britain
Australia and New Zealand
Canada
Chapter 15 - European Renaissance: West
The Second Italian Film Renaissance
Popular Cinema in Italy
Contemporary Widescreen Technologies and Styles
Scandinavian or Nordic Cinema
Spain
Germany: Das neue Kino
International Stature: Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, and Others
Chapter 16 - European Renaissance: East
Poland
Former Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Former Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Romania
Other Balkan Cinemas
The Importance of Eastern European Cinema
Chapter 17 - The Former Soviet Union
Cinema during the Khrushchev Thaw
Sergei Parajanov and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Cinema under Brezhnev
Cinema of the Non-Russian Republics
Baltic Cinema
Moldavia (Moldova)
Transcaucasian Cinema
Central Asian Cinema
Soviet Russian Cinema
Glasnost, Perestroika, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Chapter 18 - Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China
Japan
India
China
Chapter 19 - Third World Cinema
Latin America
Cuba and the New Latin American Cinema
Africa
The Middle East
The Pacific Rim
Chapter 20 - Hollywood, 1965–1995
The New American Cinema
Hollywood in the Seventies and the Eighties
Chapter 21 - The Digital Domain
Digital Production
Industrial Light & Magic
Digital Domain and Titanic
Particle Animation, 1996–1997: Twister, Independence Day, and Starship Troopers
A New “New Hollywood,” 1997–1998
The Digital Manipulation of Color
Bread and Circuses
Millennial Visions
A New Aesthetic for a New Century
Digital 3-D
The Digital Future
Chapter 22 - A Global Cinema?
Megapictures, or “Tent Poles”
Hollywood Abroad
Globalization’s Effects on Local Cinemas
Digital Distribution
“Independent” Film
A Glut of Indie Films?
Slow Cinema, Long Films
Long Movies on Television
“Binge-Watching”
DVD
Giants in the Earth
Some Contemporary Trends
Four Comic Talents
Other American Auteurs
Shape of the Future
Glossary
Photo Credits
Name Index
Subject Index
