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Author Cook, Pam, 1943-

Title The cinema book
Edition Second edition / edited by Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink
Published London : British Film Institute Publishing, 1999

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 MELB  791.43 Coo/Cbo 1999  AVAILABLE
Description x, 406 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Contents Pt. 1. Classic Hollywood Cinema. The Rise of the American Film Industry. The Studios. Stars. Classic Hollywood Narrative -- Pt. 2. Technology. Sound. Colour. Deep Focus. Lighting. Widescreen. Cameras. Alternative Production Formats: 16mm, 8mm, and Video. Editing. The 'New' Technologies -- Pt. 3. National Cinemas and Film Movements. German Expressionism and New German Cinema. Soviet Cinema. Italian Neo-Realism. The French Nouvelle Vague. The British Film Industry -- Pt. 4. Alternatives to Classic Hollywood. Early Cinema: After Brighton. New Hollywood. Art Cinema. East Asian Cinema. Avant-Garde and Counter-Cinema. Third World and Postcolonial Cinema. Hindi Cinema -- Pt. 5. Genre. History of Genre Criticism. The Western. Melodrama. Contemporary Crime. Film Noir. Science Fiction and Horror. The Musical. Teenpics. Comedy. Action-Adventure -- Pt. 6. Authorship and Cinema. The Politique Des Auteurs. The Auteur Theory. Auteur Theory and British Cinema. Structuralism and Auteur Study. Auteur Study After Structuralism. Auteurism in the 1990s -- Pt. 7. Theoretical Frameworks. Looking at Film. Structuralism and Its Aftermath. Psychoanalysis. Feminist Film Theory. Spectatorship and Audience Research
Summary This 2nd edition of The Cinema Book looks at the recent developments in the field of cinema studies whilst retaining the historical coverage and depth of the original
Analysis ACTION FILMS
ART CINEMA
ASIAN COUNTRIES
AUDIENCE RESEARCH
AUTEUR THEORY
AUTHORSHIP
AVANT-GARDE FILMS
COMEDIES
EXPRESSIONISM
FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA
FILM NOIR
GANGSTER FILMS
GENRES
GERMANY
HOLLYWOOD
HORROR FILMS
MELODRAMA
MUSICALS
NARRATIVE IN FILMS
NEOREALISM
NOUVELLE VAGUE
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA
SARRIS, ANDREW
SPECTATORSHIP
STARS
STRUCTURALISM
STUDIO SYSTEM
STUDIOS, FILM. USA
THIRD CINEMA
THIRD WORLD
UNITED KINGDOM
USA
USSR
WESTERNS
YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS
Notes Previous ed.: 1985
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [375]-398
Subject Film criticism.
Film genres.
Motion pictures -- History.
Motion pictures.
Author Bernink, Mieke.
Cook, Pam, 1943-
British Film Institute.
LC no. 2000362433
ISBN 0851707262 (paperback)
0851707297 (cased)
Other Titles Cinema book (Cook : 2nd ed.)