For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Film and Film History in departments of English, Communication and Theatre.
Flashback is a succinct history of film from the 1890s to the present that examines the art of film as well as the dynamics and influence of the motion picture business, ever changing technology, and the impact of these movies on their audiences. This Sixth Edition provides instructors and students with a comprehensive overview of film history that is reader friendly, well illustrated with photos from key movies, and flexibly organized.
Preface
1. Beginnings.
2. Griffith and His Contemporaries: 1908—1920.
3. American Cinema in the 1920s.
Major Filmmakers
Talkies
4. European Cinema in the 1920s.
Soviet Union
Germany
France
5. The Hollywood Studio System: 1925-1955
The Box Office
The Studio System
The Star System
The System of Genres
6. American Cinema in the 1930s.
The Talkie Era
New Genres: Gangster Pictures, Musicals, Screwball Comedy
Major Filmmakers
7. European Cinema in the 1930s.
Germany
Great Britian
France
8. American Cinema in the 1940s.
Decline of the Studio System
World War II
Major Filmmakers
Film Noir and Postwar Realism
9. European Cinema in the 1940s.
Germany
France
Soviet Union
Great Britian
Italy
10. American Cinema in the 1950s.
New Screens
The Red Scare
Social Realism
Method Acting
Major Filmmakers
11. International Cinema in the 1950s.
Japan
Ingmar Bergman
Federico Fellini
France
12. American Cinema in the 1960s.
The Bloated Era
Major Filmmakers
New Directions
13. International Cinema in the 1960s.
France
Great Britian
Italy
Eastern Europe
14. American Cinema in the 1970s.
The Vietnam-Watergate Era
The New Cinema
Major Figures
15. International Cinema in the 1970s.
Great Britian
France
West Germany
Italy
Eastern Europe
Australia
The Third World
16. American Cinema in the 1980s.
Technology and the Marketplace
The Reagan Era
The Mainstream
The Mavericks
17. International Cinema in the 1980s.
Great Britian
Western Europe
U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe
The Third World
Japan
18. American Cinema in the 1990s.
The Hollywood Studios
The Bright Side
Major Filmmakers
The Independent Cinema
19. International Cinema in the 1990s.
Hollywood Uber Alles
Great Britian
Ireland
Continental Europe
Emerging Cinemas
Australia and New Zealand
20. American Cinema Since 2000.
Major Figures
Emerging Artists
21. International Cinema Since 2000.
Europe
Islamic Cinema
Hong Kong/China, and Japan
United States
Latin America
Glossary
Index
Glossary.
Index.