A Short History of the Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Bruce F. Kawin

Gerald Mast

Movies

Hungry Minds Inc.U.S.

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The seventh edition of A Short History of the Movies continues the tradition that has made it the most widely used textbook ever for college courses in film history. This volume offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film, from the early Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin shorts, through the studio heyday of the 1930s and 1940s and the "Hollywood Renaissance" of the 1960s and 1970s, to the pictures and their technology appearing in the multiplexes and sound palaces of today. This new edition, which has been revised and rewritten to reflect current scholarship and recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers, represents an accurate, scrupulous updating of a classic.

A Short History of the Movies (Oxford Paperbacks)

Oxford Paperbacks

Brought up to date with an expanded range of selections, extended historical coverage, and a dedicated pluralistic commitment, the third edition of this highly popular text on film aesthetics features major additions of contemporary topics in film theory--including psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist approaches--and new essays on television, horror films, and experimental movie making. Of the 53 selections, 13 are new. The section "Kinds of Film" has been retitled "Film Genres" and concentrates exclusively on the distinctions within a single type of film: classical Hollywood narrative cinema. The final section, now called "Film: Psychology, Society, and Ideology" is substantially revised to take into account film's relationship to its consumers: how films shape or reflect cultural attitudes, reinforce or reject dominant modes of cultural thinking, and stimulate or frustrate people's needs and drives. Throughout the book chapter introductions have been rewritten to reflect today's concerns. Current and comprehensive, the book that The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism called "the best collection available on the disparate comments in the fields of film theory and criticism" is now even better.

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings

Oxford University Press

A Short Histroy of the Movies

Pearson/Education

Although books on the comedies of the silent era abound, few have attempted to survey film comedy as a whole—its history and evolution, how the philosophical visions of its greatest artists and directors have shaped its traditions, and how these visions have informed both the meaning and manner of their work.Blending information with interpretation, description with analysis, Mast traces the development of screen comedy from the first crude efforts of Edison and Lumière to the subtlety and psychological complexity of Annie Hall. As he guides the reader through detailed discussions of specific films, Mast reveals the structures, the values, and the cinematic techniques which have appeared and reappeared in comic cinema.The second edition of The Comic Mind treats the comic developments of the 1970s in terms of the traditions of film comedy set forth in the first edition, including a discussion of the evolution of Jacques Tati and the emergence of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen as the two greatest American comic stylists of the seventies."The most comprehensive study of film comedy yet written in English. . . .The book's extensive index with references to companies from which 16mm prints of many of the cited films may be rented will be of great value to the film teacher and audiovisual librarian."—Choice

The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies

University of Chicago Press

We provide free tracking with every order, ship daily, and use bubble mailers for packaging! An excellent copy almost like new, unread, but may have some very minor shipping, shelving, storage defects to the dust jacket or wraps in form of rubs or scratches with the book possibly having very slight wear to book's board corners.

New Eng. Lib.

Taken from: A Short History of the Movies, Abridged Ninth Edition.

A Short History of the Movies: 2nd Custom Edition for Pasadena City College

Pearson/Custom Publishing

A Short History of the Movies (Georgia State University Custom Edition)

History

Americas

Pearson

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A Short History of the Movies

A Short History of the Movies

A Short History of the Movies (Oxford Paperbacks)

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings

A Short Histroy of the Movies

The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies

The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies

A Short History of the Movies: 2nd Custom Edition for Pasadena City College

A Short History of the Movies (Georgia State University Custom Edition)