Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey - The Oxford History of World Cinema

University of California Press, 1994 - 337 p. Eileen Bowser chronicles the history of the American film business from the days of storefront nickelodeons to the premiere of D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. The effect of the surroundings-the size of the hall whether the film was shown alone or along with vaudeville entertainment and the size, quality, and relevance of the musical background-are all examined for their impact on the filmgoin...

Publisher: Berg, New York, 2011. 192 pages. Language: English. Gilles Deleuze published two radical books on film: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. Deleuze and Cinema presents a step-by-step guide to the key concepts behind Deleuze's revolutionary theory of the cinema. Exploring ideas through key directors and genres, Deleuze's method is illustrated with examples drawn from American, British, continental European, Russ...

ABC-Clio, 2011. - 1297 pp. Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia is a reference text focused on the relationship between American society and movies and filmmaking in the United States from the late 19th century through the present. Beyond discussing many important American films ranging from Birth of a Nation to Star Wars to the Harry Potter film series, the essays included in the volumes explore sensitive issues in cinema related to race,...

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 1996. 352 pages. Language: English. German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors. The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema. German Cinema performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely overlooked: the first two decades of German cinema. This collection of essays by established authors...

Rutgers University Press, USA, 2007. 285 pages. Language: English. American Cinema of the 1970s, however, looks beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies have influenced American life and how the films of that decade represent a peak moment in cinema history. The director-driven movies of this era reflect this turmoil, experimenting with narrative structures, offering a gallery of scruffy antiheroes, and revising traditiona...

270 pp. Public history, popular memory: A white man’s country: Yale’s Chronicles of America; Civic pageantry and public memory in the silent era commemorative ?lm: The Pony Express at the Diamond Jubilee; ‘Look behind you! ’: memories of cinema-going in the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood; Raiding the archive: ?lm festivals and the revival of Classic Hollywood; The politics of memory: The articulation of memory and desire: from Vietnam to the war in...

Publisher: Routledge, New York & London, 2003. 256 pages. Language: English. This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations. The 'Third Cinema' movement called for a politicised film-making practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America, one which would take on board issues of race, class, religion, and national integrity. The films which resulted f...

Reference Guides to the World's Cinema Series. Publisher: Greenwood Press, USA & UK, 1999. 384 pages. Language: English. This critical survey of key films, actors, directors, and screenwriters during the silent era of the American cinema offers a broad-ranging portrait of the motion picture production of silent film. Detailed but concise alphabetical entries include over 100 film titles and 150 personnel. An introductory chapter explores the...

Publisher: I. B. Tauris, London & New York, 2007. 200 pages. Language: English. What connects films of a particular nation, in a particular time? What makes them especially interesting and revealing? This book offers an original answer to these central questions for world cinema, focusing on the case of Brazil and the return of the utopian gesture into its cinema. In this extensively illustrated book, L?cia Nagib argues that the foundationa...

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2005. 216 pages. Language: English. The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus: in contrast to film studies' traditional exclusive concern with the film...