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A History of Narrative Film » (4th Edition)
Authors: David A. Cook
ISBN-13: 9780393978681, ISBN-10: 0393978680
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: 4th Edition
Author Biography: David A. Cook
David Cook (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is Professor and Director of Film Studies at Emory University, where he has taught since 1973. He has also published Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Era of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 as part of the celebrated multivolume History of American Cinema series.
Book Synopsis
Sophisticated in its analytical content, current and comprehensive in its coverage of all aspects of film and filmmaking, and informed throughout by fascinating historical and cultural contexts, A History of Narrative Film is widely acknowledged to be the definitive text in the field.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Preface to the Third Edition | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| A Note on Method | ||
| A Note on Supplementary Material | ||
| A Note on Dates, Titles, and Stills | ||
| 1 | Origins | 1 |
| 2 | International Expansion, 1907-1918 | 32 |
| 3 | D. W. Griffith and the Development of Narrative Form | 59 |
| 4 | German Cinema of the Weimar Period, 1919-1929 | 102 |
| 5 | Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage, 1917-1931 | 130 |
| 6 | Hollywood in the Twenties | 196 |
| 7 | The Coming of Sound and Color, 1926-1935 | 239 |
| 8 | The Sound Film and the American Studio System | 274 |
| 9 | Europe in the Thirties | 347 |
| 10 | Orson Welles and the Modern Sound Film | 392 |
| 11 | Wartime and Postwar Cinema: Italy and The United States, 1940-1951 | 421 |
| 12 | Hollywood, 1952-1965 | 461 |
| 13 | The French New Wave and Its Native Context | 516 |
| 14 | New Cinemas in Britain and the English-Speaking Commonwealth | 568 |
| 15 | European Renaissance: West | 607 |
| 16 | European Renaissance: East | 682 |
| 17 | The Former Soviet Union, 1945-Present | 781 |
| 18 | Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China | 828 |
| 19 | Third World Cinema | 877 |
| 20 | Hollywood, 1965-Present | 919 |
| Glossary | 959 | |
| Selective Bibliography | 979 | |
| Index | 1055 |
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