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American film: a history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewis, Jon, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Motion pictures.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • pt.1: Early cinema, 1893-1914
  • Pre-cinema
  • Edison and the Lumière brothers: the aesthetics of early cinema
  • An American film industry
  • Major filmmakers in early American cinema
  • An unseen enemy: crosscutting and the last-minute rescue
  • pt.2: The silent era, 1915-1928
  • A studio industry is born
  • Moviemaking and moviemakers
  • Sunrise: the art of antimontage
  • The golden age of film comedy
  • pt.3: Technical innovation and industrial transformation, 1927-1938
  • Technical innovations: sound and color
  • The studio system
  • Censorship: regulating film content
  • Genre and studio Hollywood
  • It happened one night: sets and settings
  • pt.4: Hollywood in transition, 1939-1945
  • 1939--1941: the last best years
  • A world at war
  • Rebecca: sound design
  • Genre in wartime Hollywood
  • pt. 5: Adjusting to postwar America, 1945-1955
  • Reinventing Hollywood
  • The big knife: offscreen space
  • Genre: film noir
  • The big heat: props and mise-en-scène
  • Transcending genre, transcending Hollywood
  • pt.6: Moving toward a new Hollywood, 1955-1967
  • Industry shakeup
  • Genre
  • Rebel without a cause: camera placement
  • Transcending genre, transcending Hollywood
  • Psycho: subjective camera
  • Two key films
  • pt.7: A Hollywood renaissance 1968-1980
  • Reinventing Hollywood
  • Major films and filmmakers of the auteur renaissance
  • The Godfather: editing on sound and image
  • American graffiti: cine-realism
  • American genre cinema
  • Halloween: subjective (first-person) camera
  • pt.8: A new new Hollywood, 1981-1999
  • A new corporate Hollywood
  • Genres and trends
  • Auteur filmmakers
  • She's gotta have it: direct address
  • Independents and independence
  • Reservoir dogs: talk is cheap, action is expensive
  • pt.9: Movies for a new millennium, 1999-2017
  • The new new Hollywood
  • Films and filmmakers: industry trends
  • Far from Heaven: color
  • Marie Antoinette: costumes, makeup and hair
  • Epilogue
  • The end of cinema (as we knew it): 2018 and beyond
  • Movies and meaning: on the political importance and influence of Hollywood
  • Prestige TV
  • The big screen
  • Parting glances: May 2018.