Second edition.

Written by two leading film scholars, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive survey of film-from the backlots of Hollywood, across the United States, and around the world. As in the authors' bestselling Film Art, concepts and events are illustrated with actual frame enlargements, giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that use publicity stills.

CONTENTS:

Preface

Introduction: Film History and How It Is Done

Part ONE: EARLY CINEMA

1 THE INVENTION AND EARLY YEARS OF THE CINEMA, 1880s-1904

2 THE INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION OF THE CINEMA, 1905-1912

3 NATIONAL CINEMA, HOLLYWOOD CLASSICISM, AND WORLD WAR I, 1905-1919

Part TWO: THE LATE SILENT ERA, 1919-1929

4 FRANCE IN THE 1920S

5 GERMANY IN THE 1920s

6 SOVIET CINEMA IN THE 1920s

7 THE LATE SILENT ERA IN HOLLYWOOD, 1920-1928

8 INTERNATIONAL TRENDS OF THE 1920s

Part THREE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUND CINEMA, 1926-1945

9 THE INTRODUCTION OF SOUND

10 THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM, 1930-1945

11 OTHER STUDIO SYSTEMS

12 Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945

13 FRANCE: POETIC REALISM, THE POPULAR FRONT AND THE OCCUPATION, 1930-1945

14 LEFTIST, DOCUMENTARY, AND EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, 1930-1945