Mast, Gerald, 1940-1988

A short history of the movies / Gerald Mast, Bruce F. Kawin. - Abridged eleventh edition - Boston : Pearson, c2012. - xiv, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Preface
1. Introductory assumptions
2. Birth
3. Film narrative, commercial expansion
4. Griffith
5. Mack Sennett and the Chaplin shorts
6. Movie czars and movie stars
7. The German golden age
8. Soviet montage
9. Sound
10. France between the wars
11. The American studio years: 1930-1945
12. Hollywood in transition: 1946-1965
13. Neorealism, the New Wave, and what followed
14. National cinemas 1: 1945-
15. Hollywood renaissance: 1964-1976
16. National cinemas 2: 1968-
17. The return of the myths: 1977- - 18. Conglomerates and video: 1975-
19. Digital cinema: 1999-

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Motion pictures--History.
Cine--Historia

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