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A guide to the fundamentals of understanding film history, filmmaking, and film appreciation.
Film is not just a medium; it is also a language—and a global one at that. Essential Film History describes how this language emerged and how it has matured over the course of more than 125 years. Beginning with the experiments of the late nineteenth century, and tracking the development of cinematic storytelling, commercial distribution, and audience reception into the era of digital recording, Charles Ramírez Berg and John Bruns offer a comprehensive course in both the history and artistry of film.
Essential Film History breaks cinematic language into three core components: image, sound, and narrative. Between the 1890s and 1940s, this audiovisual language both consolidated and spread, becoming comprehensible worldwide. Since then, filmmakers have adapted and extended the language of cinema to suit an ever-growing range of aesthetic and narrative projects, from documentaries and full-length animation to avant-garde and made-for-TV movies. Covering major figures, studios, and events as well as key technological and sociopolitical developments, Essential Film History is an indispensable guide to the evolution of cinematic style.
Contents
Preface
1. Early Cinema, 1891-1905
2. The Emergence of Narrative, 1906-1916
3. The Dawning of the Hollywood Studio Style, 1917-1927
4. The Golden Age of German Cinema, 1919-1933
5. Film and Revolution: The Rise of Soviet Cinema
6. Sound and Narration: The Transition to Talking Pictures, 1927-1933
7. The Golden Age of French Cinema, 1920-1939
8. Classical Hollywood, 1930-1945: Narrative Structure and Five Key Directors
9. Italian Neorealism
10. American Cinema After World War II
11. After Neorealism: Global Cinema in the 1950s
12. The French New Wave
13. Global New Waves: World Cinema in the 1960s
14. The New Hollywood: From Art House to Blockbuster, 1960-1985
15. Recent European Cinema: From 1980 to the Present
16. New Cinemas in a Transnational World, Part 1
17. New Cinemas in a Transnational World, Part 2
18. Indiewood, Hollywood, and the Age of Franchise Moviemaking
19. New Narratives in Film
20. Cinematic Alternatives in (Digital) Filmmaking, 1990 to the Present
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