For undergraduate and graduate-level courses in History of Film, Introduction to Film Studies, Film and Culture and Film and History.

This comprehensive history of cinema from its origins to the present-day treats the film medium as a global phenomenon with dynamic relationships among nations and cultures in all phases of its history. The text thoroughly covers the technological, aesthetic, and industrial history of films, but also emphasizes the mediums' interconnections with economic, social, and political movements and events. Relating the medium dynamically to other arts, society, economics, politics and culture, this volume shows how the history of film was shaped by wars, depression, regimes, and events.

Features :

• NEWùUpdated with current filmsùe.g., post-communist cinema; contemporary world filmmakers; the age of special effects.
• Provides students with the most comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the history of the film medium to present day.
• NEWùContemporary developments in the medium.
• Provides students with a complete analysis of current trends and developments in the industry.
• NEWùRedesigned for greater readability.
• Provides students with a lively, enjoyable presentation that draws them into the subject.
• Richly illustrated.
• Provides students with a vivid experience of the film medium's quality and variety.
• 1400 specific films addressed.
• Provides students with a broad view of both great works of art and the medium's manifold levels of pleasure and function.

I. EMERGENCE OF CINEMA.

1. Cinema, Society and Science.
2. Early Cinema.
3. Film as Art and Industry.
4. The Global Spread of Film.

II. THE SILENT ERA.

5. Hollywood in the 1920's.
6. The Cinemas of Europe.
7. Soviet Cinema.
8. The Transition to Sound.

III. CLASSIC CINEMA.

9. Hollywood Genres.
10. Meeting Hollywood's Challenge.
11. Documentary, Propaganda, and Politics.
12. Film and World War II.

IV. POSTWAR TRANSFORMATION.

13. Italian Neorealism.
14. Hollywood's Struggles.
15. Art Cinema of Europe and Asia.
16. Hollywood in the 1950's.

V. THE REVIVAL OF CINEMA.

17. The French New Wave.
18. Cinema of Liberation.
19. The New Documentary.
20. American Film: Turmoil and Transformation.

VI. THE EXPANSION OF CINEMA.

21. European Films of the 1960s and 1970s.
22. Hollywood Recovery.
23. The Cinematic Avant-Garde.
24. The Global Advance of Cinema.

VII. CINEMA BEGINS ITS SECOND CENTURY.

25. English-Language Art Cinema.
26. New European Film.
27. World Cinema.
28. American Cinema: Special Effects and Beyond.