This is the essential core of Mast and Kawin's classic in a streamlined volume: the most accurate, carefully updated account of cinema today in a clear and lively book. Building on Mast's astute and lively history of cinema, Kawin has refined and updated the fascinating story of cinema's evolution from its earliest beginnings to the digital age. Probing deeper than most movie books, he takes us into the studio vaults, corrects the record, discloses what goes on inside the industry, clarifies the mysteries of movie technology, and offers a precise, thoroughly researched account. Kawin's analysis is witty and engaging, rich in instructive insights and entertaining illustrations of the art, history, technology, business, and fun of film. Now the essentials of Mast and Kawin's classic book are available in a compact version, judiciously streamlined at an even trimmer price.
| ISBN | 0205665926 | | Part volume | Abridged Edition | | ISBN13 | 9780205665921
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Pearson Education (US) | | Weight (grammes) | 705 | | Imprint | Longman Inc | | Published in | New Jersey | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780321418210 | | Publication date | 10 Oct 2008 | | Height (mm) | 232 | | Library of Congress | 2008036362 | | Width (mm) | 191 | | DEWEY | 791.4309 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 512 | |
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1. Introductory Assumptions. For Further Viewing. 2. Birth. Frames per second. Pictures on Film. Speed. Flicker and the Continuous Signal. Persistence of Vision and Other Phenomena. Seeing with the Brain. Visual Masking and Retinal Retention. Scientific Toys. Aemile Reynaud. Photography. Muybridge and Marey. Thomas Edison. W. K--L. Dickson and William Heise. Early Cameras and Films. The Kinetoscope. A Sound Film and Studio. Projection. The Magic Lantern. The Loop and Other Solutions. The Lumiere Brothers. R.W. Paul. The Vitascope. The First Films. For Further Viewing. 3. Film Narrative, Commercial Expansion. Early Companies. Narrative. George Melies. Cohl and Others. Edwin S. Porter. From Brighton to Biograph. Business Wars. The Film d'Art. For Further Viewing. 4. Griffith. Apprenticeship. Biograph: The One-Reelers. Two Reels and Up. The Birth of a Nation. Intolerance. 1917-31. Broken Blossoms and Way Down East. The Struggle. For Further Viewing. 5. Mack Sennett and the Chaplin Shorts. Krazy Keystones. Charlie. For Further Viewing. 6. Movie Czars and Movie Stars. Stars over Hollywood. The First Stars. California, Here We Come. The Emperors and Their Rule. Major Studios. Movie Palaces. Morality. Films and Filmmakers, 1910-28. Thomas Ince. Douglas Fairbanks. DeMille and von Stroheim. Greed. Henry King. Oscar Micheaux and the Race Movie. Webber and Watson. Weber and Women. King Vidor. Lubitsch and Others. Flaherty and the Silent Documentary. The Comics. Laurel and Hardy and Hal Roach. Harold Lloyd. Harry Langdon. Buster Keaton. The Gold Rush and The General. Hollywood and the Jazz Age. Modernism. Jazz, Booze, and It. For Further Viewing. 7. The German Golden Age. Expressionism, Realism, and the Studio Film. Fantasy. Caligari. Metropolis. Nosferatu. Psychology. The Last Laugh. Pabst and die neue Sachlichkeit. The End of an Era. Beyond the Studio. Exodus to Hollywood. Using Sound. Lei Riefenstahl. For Further Viewing. 8. Soviet Montage. The Kuleshov Workshop. Sergei M. Eisenstein. Battleship Potemkin. October. Sound and Color. Vsevolod I. Pudovkin. Mother. Later Works. Other Major Figures. Alexander Dovzhenko. Dziga Vertov. Socialist Realism. For Further Viewing. 9. Sound. Processes. Problems. Solutions. For Further Viewing. 10. France between the Wars. Surrealism and Other Movements. Gance and Dreyer. Abel Gance. The Passion of Joan of Arc. Rene Clair. Jean Renoir. Grand Illusion. The Rules of the Game. Vigo and Others. Jean Vigo. Carne and Prevert. For Further Reading and Viewing. 11. The American Studio Years: 1930-45. Film Cycles and Cinematic Conventions. The Production Code. Cycles. Studios and Style. Women in the Studio Era The Comics. Late Chaplin. Disney's World. Lubitsch and Sound. Frank Capra. Preston Sturges. George Cukor. The Marx Brothers. Mae West. W.C. Fields. Masters of Mood and Action. Josef von Sternberg. John Ford. Howard Hawks. Alfred Hitchcock. Orson Welles. For Further Reading and Viewing. 12. Hollywood in Transition: 1946-65. Enemies Within: Freedom of Association and Free Entertainment. The Hollywood Ten and the Blacklist. 3-D, CinemaScope, Color, and the Tube. Films in the Transitional Era. Freedom of Speech, Preminger, and the Blacklist. Message Pictures: Kazan and Others. Adaptations and Values: John Huston and Others. Film Noir and Other Genres. The Freed Musicals. Surfaces and Subversion. Samuel Fuller . Late Hitchcock. Nicholas Ray. Late Ford. Douglas Sirk. Finding the Audience. For Further Viewing. 13. Neorealism and the New Wave. Italian Neorealism. Roberto Rossellini. De Sica and Zavattini. Luchino Visconti. Romantics and Antiromantics. Federico Fellini. Michelangelo Antonioni. Pasolini and Bertolucci. Germi, Leone, and Others. France---Postwar Classicism. Cocteau and Others. Max Ophuls. Robert Bresson. Tati, Clouzot, and Others. 19
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