A short history of film /
Wheeler Winston Dixon & Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.
- 3rd edition.
- xxxviii, 463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-415) and index.
One. The Invention of the Movies -- Two. The Birth of an American Industry -- Three. World Cinema: The Silent Era -- Four. The Hollywood Studio System in the 1930s and 1940s -- Five. International Cinema through World War II -- Six. Postwar Challenges to the Movies -- Seven. World Cinema in the 1950s -- Eight. The 1960s Explosion -- Nine. World Cinema 1970 to the Present -- Ten. The New Hollywood -- Glossary of Film Terms.
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema, an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
9780813595122 (pbk.) 0813595126 (pbk.)
Motion pictures--History. Motion picture industry--History. Cine--Historia Industria cinematográfica--Historia