Flashback A Brief Film History
by Giannetti, Louis; Eyman, ScottEdition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-07-14
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary
KEYBENEFIT:Consolidating major figures and film movements into their decade of greatest influence or prestige, this "no-nonsense" book offers a generously illustrated, concise, and very readable history of fiction movies with an emphasis on American cinema. Eclectic in methodology and written in a plain English style that audiences can relate to, it examines the full scope of traditional film history and criticism, viewing film as both an art and an industry- as it mirrors popular audience values, social ideologies, and historical epochs.KEYTOPICS:Film discussions include titles such asBorat;theHarry Potterseries;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Babel; A History of Violence; Horton Hears a Who!; Batman: The Dark Knight; Ratatouille; Juno; Brokeback Mountain; No Country for Old Men;andThere Will Be Blood.KEYFor anyone who enjoys going to, and thinking about, the movies.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Beginnings | |
| Griffith and His Contemporaries: 1908-1920 | |
| American Cinema in the 1920s | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| Talkies | |
| European Cinema in the 1920s | |
| Soviet Union | |
| Germany | |
| France | |
| The Hollywood Studio System;: 1925-1955 | |
| The Box Office | |
| The Studio System | |
| The Star System | |
| The System of Genres | |
| American Cinema in the 1930s | |
| The Talkie Era | |
| New Genres: Gangster Pictures, Musicals, Screwball Comedy | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| European Cinema in the 1930s | |
| Germany | |
| Great Britian | |
| France | |
| American Cinema in the 1940s | |
| Decline of the Studio System | |
| World War II | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| Film Noir and Postwar Realism | |
| European Cinema in the 1940s | |
| Germany | |
| France | |
| Soviet Union | |
| Great Britian | |
| Italy | |
| American Cinema in the 1950s | |
| New Screens | |
| The Red Scare | |
| Social Realism | |
| Method Acting | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| International Cinema in the 1950s | |
| Japan | |
| Ingmar Bergman | |
| Federico Fellini | |
| France | |
| American Cinema in the 1960s | |
| The Bloated Era | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| New Directions | |
| International Cinema in the 1960s | |
| France | |
| Great Britian | |
| Italy | |
| Eastern Europe | |
| American Cinema in the 1970s | |
| The Vietnam-Watergate Era | |
| The New Cinema | |
| Major Figures | |
| International Cinema in the 1970s | |
| Great Britian | |
| France | |
| West Germany | |
| Italy | |
| Eastern Europe | |
| Australia | |
| The Third World | |
| American Cinema in the 1980s | |
| Technology and the Marketplace | |
| The Reagan Era | |
| The Mainstream | |
| The Mavericks | |
| International Cinema in the 1980s | |
| Great Britian | |
| Western Europe | |
| U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe | |
| The Third World | |
| Japan | |
| American Cinema in the 1990s | |
| The Hollywood Studios | |
| The Bright Side | |
| Major Filmmakers | |
| The Independent Cinema | |
| International Cinema in the 1990s | |
| Hollywood Uber Alles | |
| Great Britian | |
| Ireland | |
| Continental Europe | |
| Emerging Cinemas | |
| Australia and New Zealand | |
| American Cinema Since 2000 | |
| Major Figures | |
| Emerging Artists | |
| International Cinema Since 2000 | |
| Europe | |
| Islamic Cinema | |
| Hong Kong/China, and Japan | |
| United States | |
| Latin America | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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