Film histories : an introduction and reader / Paul Grainge, Mark Jancovich and Sharon Monteith.
Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2007.Description: xi, 612 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780802093554 (hardback)
- 9780802095084 (pbk.)
- 791.4309 22 GRA
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Contents
Part One: Film History from its origins to 1945
1. The Emergence of Cinema
2. Organising Early Film Audiences
3. Nationalism, Trade and Market Domination
4. Establishing Classical Norms
5. The Age of the Dream Palace and the Rise of the Star System
6. Competing with Hollywood: National Film Industries Outside Hollywood
7. The Rise of the Studios and the Coming of Sound
8. Realism, Nationalism and 'Film Culture'
9. Adjustment, Depression and Regulation
10. Totalitarianism, Dictatorship and Propaganda
11. The Common People, Historical Drama and the Preparations for War
12. War-time Unity and Alienation
Part Two: Film History from 1946 to the present
13. Post-War Challenges: National Regeneration, HUAC Investigations, Divestiture, and Declining Audiences
14. The Politics of Polarisation: Affluence, Anxiety and the Cold War
15. Cinematic Spectacles and the Rise of the Independents
16. New Waves, Specialist Audiences and Adult Films
17. Radicalism, Revolution and Counter-Cinema
18. Modernism, Nostalgia and the Hollywood Renaissance
19. From Movie Brats to Movie Blockbusters
20. The Exhibitors Strike Back: Multiplexes, Video and the Rise of Home Cinema
21. Postmodernism, High Concept and Eighties Excess
22. Cults, Independents and "Guerrilla" Filmmaking
23. From Cinemas to Theme Parks: Conglomeration, Synergy and Multimedia
24. Globalisation and the New Millennium
Includes bibliography (p. 574-584) and index.
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