Film : an international history of the medium. / Robert Sklar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002.Description: 600 p. : ill. 29 cmISBN:
  • 130340499
Subject(s): Summary: Presents the entire history of motion pictures, from pre-cinema to the present. Provides complete analysis of the principal films, directors, and national cinemas. Supplies a thorough grounding in the social, economic, and poltical circumstances critical to the undersanding of films as both art and industry. Chapters are devoted to early cinema, Soviet silent cinema, Hollywood genres, Italian neorealism, and the French New Wave. Sections feature the films of Eastern Europe, Latin America, Japan, China, Africa, the Middle East and India. Contains four new chapters on English language art cinema, new European film, world cinema, and Hollywood. Contains 750 film stills, frame enlargements, production shots, and diagrams.
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Reference Reference Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Reference PN 1993.5.Al .Sk41 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3AEA0000267328

Presents the entire history of motion pictures, from pre-cinema to the present. Provides complete analysis of the principal films, directors, and national cinemas. Supplies a thorough grounding in the social, economic, and poltical circumstances critical to the undersanding of films as both art and industry. Chapters are devoted to early cinema, Soviet silent cinema, Hollywood genres, Italian neorealism, and the French New Wave. Sections feature the films of Eastern Europe, Latin America, Japan, China, Africa, the Middle East and India. Contains four new chapters on English language art cinema, new European film, world cinema, and Hollywood. Contains 750 film stills, frame enlargements, production shots, and diagrams.

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