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The Oxford history of world cinema / edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.Description: xxii, 824 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780198742425:
  • 0198742428
Other title:
  • History of world cinema
  • World cinema
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4301
LOC classification:
  • O96 1997
Online resources:
Contents:
Silent cinema, 1895-1930: Early cinema / R. Pearson; World-wide spread of cinema / R. Vasey; Documentary / C. Musser; British cinema from Hepworth to Hitchcock / J. Hawkridge; Music and the silent film / M. Marks -- Sound cinema, 1930-1960: Censorship and self-regulation / R. Maltby; The Western / E. Buscombe; The popular art of French cinema / G. Vincendeau; Classical cinema of Japan / H. Komatsu; After the war / G. Nowell-Smith -- Modern cinema, 1960-1995: Television and the film industry / M. Hilmes; Black presence in American cinema / J. Pines; Dreams and nightmares in the Hollywood blockbuster / J. Sartelle; Avant-garde film, the second wave / A.L. Rees; Modern film music / R. Brown; New directions in French cinema / P. Graham; Spain after Franco / M. Kinder; Cinema in the Soviet Republics / J. Radvanyi; Indonesian cinema / D. Hanan; Taiwanese new cinema / J. Yip; New Australian cinema / S. Crofts; New cinemas in Latin America / M. Chanan; Resurgence of cinema / G. Nowell-Smith.
Summary: This is a history of the cinema, not of film ... The boundaries of cinema ... include the audience, the industry, and the people who work in it - from stars to technicians to usherettes - and the mechanisms of regulation and control which determine which films audiences are encouraged to see and which they are not ... This is a history of cinema as ... popular art ... This [book] is a history of world cinema.-General introd.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 791.4301 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 61939

"First published in paperback 1997"--T.p. verso.

Originally published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997, c1996.

CW027

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Silent cinema, 1895-1930: Early cinema / R. Pearson; World-wide spread of cinema / R. Vasey; Documentary / C. Musser; British cinema from Hepworth to Hitchcock / J. Hawkridge; Music and the silent film / M. Marks -- Sound cinema, 1930-1960: Censorship and self-regulation / R. Maltby; The Western / E. Buscombe; The popular art of French cinema / G. Vincendeau; Classical cinema of Japan / H. Komatsu; After the war / G. Nowell-Smith -- Modern cinema, 1960-1995: Television and the film industry / M. Hilmes; Black presence in American cinema / J. Pines; Dreams and nightmares in the Hollywood blockbuster / J. Sartelle; Avant-garde film, the second wave / A.L. Rees; Modern film music / R. Brown; New directions in French cinema / P. Graham; Spain after Franco / M. Kinder; Cinema in the Soviet Republics / J. Radvanyi; Indonesian cinema / D. Hanan; Taiwanese new cinema / J. Yip; New Australian cinema / S. Crofts; New cinemas in Latin America / M. Chanan; Resurgence of cinema / G. Nowell-Smith.

This is a history of the cinema, not of film ... The boundaries of cinema ... include the audience, the industry, and the people who work in it - from stars to technicians to usherettes - and the mechanisms of regulation and control which determine which films audiences are encouraged to see and which they are not ... This is a history of cinema as ... popular art ... This [book] is a history of world cinema.-General introd.

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