This much-anticipated new edition builds upon the achievements of the first, taking stock of the many recent exciting developments in the field while retaining the historical coverage and depth of the original. The text is supported by over 250 illustrations, selected reading guides, and full bibliographies. Another unique feature of The Cinema Book is its fifty-five sidebars that support the text with in-depth analysis and relevant information on over 350 films. This new edition will consolidate The Cinema Book's position as the leading teaching aid in the field.
Listed after each chapter title are just some of the films/film makers /studios/actors featured in the sidebars for each section.PART 1: CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD CINEMA
Introduction
The Rise of the American Film Industry - The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Sunrise, King Kong
The Studios - Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros, Columbia, 20th Century Fox, RKO, Universal
Stars - Humphrey Bogart, Jane Fonda, Marlene Dietrich, Marlon Brando
Classical Hollywood Narrative - Stagecoach, Marnie, His Girl Friday, Klute, Mildred Pierce
PART 2: TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
Sound - The Jazz Singer, Apocalypse Now, Jurassic Park
Colour - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Deep Focus - The Best Years of Our Lives, La Regle du jeu
Lighting -Widescreen Rebel Without a Cause
Cameras
Alternative Production
Formats
Editing
The 'New' Technologies - Titanic, The Mask, Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Interactive Entertainments
Virtual Reality
PART 3: NATIONAL CINEMA AND FILM MOVEMENTS
German Expressionism and New German Cinema - Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari, Nosferatu
Soviet Cinema - The Battleship Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible Part 1
Italian Neo-Realism - La Strada, Paisa
The French Nouvelle Vague - A bout de souffle, Les Quatre cents coups
The British Film Industry - The Lavender Hill Mob, The Quatermass Experiment, Room at the Top
PART 4: ALTERNATIVES TO CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD
Early Cinema - After Brighton, The Great Train Robbery, The Lonedale Operator
New Hollywood - Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction
Art Cinema - Alice in den Städten, L'Année derniere à Marienbad, L'avventura, East Asian Cinema, Late Spring, Yellow Earth, Sisters of the Gion
Avant-Garde and Counter-Cinema - Un Chien Andalou, Vent d'est, Privilege
Third World and Postcolonial Cinema - Xala, Sankofa, Vidas Secas, La Hora de los Hornos
Hindi Cinema - Pather Panchali, Sholay, Kaliya, Pyaasa
PART 5: GENRE
History Of Genre Criticism
The Western - My Darling Clementine, Unforgiven
Melodrama - Gaslight, Written on the Wind, Stella Dallas, All That Heaven Allows
Crime - Gangsters, Detectives and Suspense Film
Film Noir - Double Indemnity, Homicide, Secret Beyond the
Door
Science Fiction and Horror - Psycho, Alien, Dead Ringers, Star Wars
The Musical - Meet Me in St Louis, Sweet Charity, Top Hat, Singin' in the Rain
The Teenpic - Grease, Gummo, Rebel Without a Cause
Comedy - Lover Come Back, Annie Hall, The Patsy
Action-Adventure
PART 6: AUTHORSHIP AND CINEMA
Authorship and Art Cinema - Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, The 'politique des auteurs' Jean Renoir, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard
The Auteur Theory - D.W. Griffith, Don Siegel, Nicholas Ray, Roger Corman
Auteurism in Britain - Carol Reed, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Terence Fisher
Structuralism and Auteur Study - Samuel Fuller, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, Raoul Walsh
Auteurism After Structuralism - John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard
Auteurism in the 1990s - Jane Campion, Peter Wier
PART 7: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
Looking at Film - Three Colours: White, The Graduate
Structuralism and its Aftermaths - Citizen Kane, Tout va bien, Kiss me Deadly, Rio Bravo, Psychoanalysis and Cinema, Manhunter, Blue Velvet, Blade Runner, Total Recall
Feminist Film Theory - Morocco, Antonia's Line
Film Theory and Spectatorship - Gone With the Wind, Queen Christina
Contributors:
Richard Abel, Guy Barefoot, Alison Butler, Pam Cook, Michael Allen, Elizabeth Cowie, James Donald, Leslie Felperin, Kathe Geist, Christine Gledhill, Michael Grant, Leighton Grist, Sheila Johnston, Noel King, Frank Krutnik, Annette Kuhn, Julia Knight, Andy Medhurst, Toby Miller, Steve Neale, Richard Neupert, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Julian Petley, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Jane Root, Thomas Shatz, Anneke Smelik, Murray Smith, Robert Stam, John Thompson, Rob White, Pamela Robertson Wojick