- Page 1: A SHORT HISTORY OF FILM
- Page 4 and 5: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-P
- Page 7: CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Timelin
- Page 11 and 12: TIMELINE 1832 The Phenakistoscope,
- Page 13 and 14: 1901 Queen Victoria dies. The first
- Page 15 and 16: Alice Guy founds Solax, her product
- Page 17 and 18: Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks,
- Page 19 and 20: 1930 Sliced bread is first availabl
- Page 21 and 22: Jean Renoir directs his masterpiece
- Page 23 and 24: 1949 George Orwell publishes Ninete
- Page 25 and 26: 1958 Hula hoops become popular. Chi
- Page 27 and 28: 1967 The United States and Soviet U
- Page 29 and 30: VHS home video recording is introdu
- Page 31 and 32: 1986 The space shuttle Challenger e
- Page 33 and 34: 1995 The Ebola virus spreads in Zai
- Page 35: Gay marriage is legalized in Massac
- Page 39 and 40: ONE THE INVENTION OF THE MOVIES beg
- Page 41 and 42: Tachyscope, which used a flickering
- Page 43 and 44: switched to Eastman paper film inst
- Page 45: the Grand Café in Paris. The broth
- Page 49 and 50: erally rough reputation and often a
- Page 51 and 52: About fourteen minutes long, A Trip
- Page 53 and 54: de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, 19
- Page 55 and 56: yet another blaze—but this time,
- Page 57 and 58: winsor mccay Newspaper cartoonist W
- Page 59 and 60: tion as the inventor of the motion
- Page 61 and 62: the birth of an american industry m
- Page 63 and 64: ooks (The Clansman and The Leopard
- Page 65 and 66: lois weber While Griffith labored o
- Page 67 and 68: ers-to-be, including Henry King. Bu
- Page 69 and 70: Laemmle created the star system as
- Page 71 and 72: stick performers who pretended to b
- Page 73 and 74: early movie stars While Chaplin was
- Page 75 and 76: Harold Lloyd in Fred Newmeyer and S
- Page 77 and 78: Melford’s The Sheik (1921). Rin T
- Page 79 and 80: MPPDA. Soon known informally as the
- Page 81 and 82: Flaherty’s second feature, Moana
- Page 83 and 84: early african american filmmakers t
- Page 85 and 86: nist groups protesting its theme of
- Page 87 and 88: the birth of an american industry c
- Page 89 and 90: the birth of an american industry w
- Page 91 and 92: THREE WORLD CINEMA: THE SILENT ERA
- Page 93 and 94: world cinema: the silent era stance
- Page 95 and 96: world cinema: the silent era over c
- Page 97 and 98:
A bizarre game of chess in René Cl
- Page 99 and 100:
themselves to free samples at the b
- Page 101 and 102:
ated a series of Surrealist films s
- Page 103 and 104:
costumes that were as brief as poss
- Page 105 and 106:
world cinema: the silent era to the
- Page 107 and 108:
of the English silent cinema, howev
- Page 109 and 110:
and future director and montage (ed
- Page 111 and 112:
world cinema: the silent era first
- Page 113 and 114:
world cinema: the silent era master
- Page 115 and 116:
world cinema: the silent era around
- Page 117 and 118:
world cinema: the silent era Paul W
- Page 119 and 120:
world cinema: the silent era produc
- Page 121 and 122:
world cinema: the silent era (Woman
- Page 123 and 124:
Other important German directors in
- Page 125 and 126:
Kinugasa, whose film Jujiro (Shadow
- Page 127 and 128:
FOUR THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM IN
- Page 129 and 130:
ond-string players under contract t
- Page 131 and 132:
Willis H. O’Brien’s spectacular
- Page 133 and 134:
sound quality. Technicians insisted
- Page 135 and 136:
john ford Despite the fact that the
- Page 137 and 138:
most the same location, so that a F
- Page 139 and 140:
had committed the crime, and the re
- Page 141 and 142:
on the set, Hitchcock drove some of
- Page 143 and 144:
with Chaplin in the title role; Lim
- Page 145 and 146:
wife fools around with a young lieu
- Page 147 and 148:
the hollywood studio system which p
- Page 149 and 150:
the hollywood studio system cline a
- Page 151 and 152:
working-class, populist values that
- Page 153 and 154:
[left] Myrna Loy (extreme left) wat
- Page 155 and 156:
van’s Travels (1941) and The Mira
- Page 157 and 158:
the hollywood studio system stunt c
- Page 159 and 160:
the hollywood studio system foils i
- Page 161 and 162:
the hollywood studio system but nea
- Page 163 and 164:
the hollywood studio system wyck, J
- Page 165 and 166:
the hollywood studio system and for
- Page 167 and 168:
the hollywood studio system Tex Ave
- Page 169 and 170:
the hollywood studio system Watched
- Page 171 and 172:
as she approached her teenage years
- Page 173 and 174:
itants of a small Russian village f
- Page 175 and 176:
FIVE INTERNATIONAL CINEMA THROUGH W
- Page 177 and 178:
eloved films of all time, as compel
- Page 179 and 180:
Working with his old associate Eug
- Page 181 and 182:
international cinema through world
- Page 183 and 184:
jean vigo: surrealism and anarchy J
- Page 185 and 186:
international cinema through world
- Page 187 and 188:
was J. Arthur Rank, who began in th
- Page 189 and 190:
Charles Laughton in Alexander Korda
- Page 191 and 192:
ment during World War II. Film hist
- Page 193 and 194:
international cinema through world
- Page 195 and 196:
tains no scenes of book burning, sp
- Page 197 and 198:
fascist italy international cinema
- Page 199 and 200:
sellini’s Roma, città aperta (Op
- Page 201 and 202:
In 1938, Boris Shumyatskiy was oust
- Page 203 and 204:
public of China, with a Communist g
- Page 205 and 206:
God, 2002), a Brazilian film also s
- Page 207 and 208:
postwar challenges to the movies Bi
- Page 209 and 210:
named Federico Fellini, soon to bec
- Page 211 and 212:
postwar challenges to the movies gu
- Page 213 and 214:
In George Marshall’s The Blue Dah
- Page 215 and 216:
Though the title role of Mildred Pi
- Page 217 and 218:
making of Song of Russia, Robert Ta
- Page 219 and 220:
postwar challenges to the movies to
- Page 221 and 222:
the rise of television In the midst
- Page 223 and 224:
postwar challenges to the movies st
- Page 225 and 226:
world to accommodate the new proces
- Page 227 and 228:
film’s visual design that Welles
- Page 229 and 230:
postwar challenges to the movies lo
- Page 231 and 232:
postwar challenges to the movies El
- Page 233 and 234:
Not Wanted is the story of a young
- Page 235 and 236:
world. His films of the decade incl
- Page 237 and 238:
Howard Hawks had significant direct
- Page 239 and 240:
(Marilyn Monroe), known simply as
- Page 241 and 242:
SEVEN WORLD CINEMA IN THE 1950S The
- Page 243 and 244:
him to a human pincushion in the mo
- Page 245 and 246:
countryside and witch hunts are a p
- Page 247 and 248:
accidental deaths just before he ca
- Page 249 and 250:
(The Music Room, 1958). The Music R
- Page 251 and 252:
even bigger success, starring Felli
- Page 253 and 254:
michelangelo antonioni and luchino
- Page 255 and 256:
conti’s most noted films, however
- Page 257 and 258:
ery. Masquerading as a string quart
- Page 259 and 260:
Hammer Horror Horror was also a pop
- Page 261 and 262:
co-authored with her husband, produ
- Page 263 and 264:
animation house, and the team conti
- Page 265 and 266:
While at least one of his films is
- Page 267 and 268:
has cancer; we follow her after a d
- Page 269 and 270:
de bave et d’éternité (Venom an
- Page 271 and 272:
films with great success is Georges
- Page 273 and 274:
enowned short films that featured s
- Page 275 and 276:
egypt In Egypt, 1950 saw the countr
- Page 277 and 278:
EIGHT THE 1960S EXPLOSION the frenc
- Page 279 and 280:
1964), and then went to England to
- Page 281 and 282:
the 1960s explosion Director Jean-L
- Page 283 and 284:
and produced by the egomaniacal Jer
- Page 285 and 286:
found effect on filmmakers worldwid
- Page 287 and 288:
as a series of elegant tracking sho
- Page 289 and 290:
movement recalls the rigorous compo
- Page 291 and 292:
French New Wave directors; he is al
- Page 293 and 294:
tinctively cruel and dark pessimism
- Page 295 and 296:
tures, out of a small office in Ven
- Page 297 and 298:
ack production costs, nearly bankru
- Page 299 and 300:
and the Italians, 1965). Elio Petri
- Page 301 and 302:
him the other resort guests are dyi
- Page 303 and 304:
Room at the Top (1959), featuring L
- Page 305 and 306:
On a more cheerful note, the Americ
- Page 307 and 308:
having a quarrel in a park and take
- Page 309 and 310:
hoodlum-on-the-run Chas (James Fox)
- Page 311 and 312:
In Chronicle, as in all their works
- Page 313 and 314:
get the film out to a more receptiv
- Page 315 and 316:
the production code collapses Anoth
- Page 317 and 318:
een a routine genre picture into a
- Page 319 and 320:
tervene when filming scenes of riot
- Page 321 and 322:
delle nuvole (Beyond the Clouds, 19
- Page 323 and 324:
The most famous filmmaker of this m
- Page 325 and 326:
striking about The Endless Summer i
- Page 327 and 328:
early western United States; and 7
- Page 329 and 330:
zilla in the West), whose debut fil
- Page 331 and 332:
endless procession of genre films a
- Page 333 and 334:
son as private eye Jake Gittes, who
- Page 335 and 336:
ings falling apart), and existentia
- Page 337 and 338:
ately attracted international atten
- Page 339 and 340:
voice of social commentary as well
- Page 341 and 342:
with the speed with which Straub wo
- Page 343 and 344:
aten (Satan’s Brew, 1976), and th
- Page 345 and 346:
they married shortly after the shoo
- Page 347 and 348:
wim wenders Wim Wenders’s early f
- Page 349 and 350:
world cinema 1970 to the present De
- Page 351 and 352:
the dardenne brothers Jean-Pierre a
- Page 353 and 354:
world cinema 1970 to the present wi
- Page 355 and 356:
voices of the new era, directing su
- Page 357 and 358:
attention, was an existential and d
- Page 359 and 360:
elsewhere in western europe The rei
- Page 361 and 362:
world cinema 1970 to the present Wa
- Page 363 and 364:
utally realistic portrayal of the o
- Page 365 and 366:
world cinema 1970 to the present Th
- Page 367 and 368:
world cinema 1970 to the present Ja
- Page 369 and 370:
world cinema 1970 to the present th
- Page 371 and 372:
world cinema 1970 to the present de
- Page 373 and 374:
world cinema 1970 to the present Ma
- Page 375 and 376:
hard-boiled crime drama starring Ch
- Page 377 and 378:
placed in either a historical conte
- Page 379 and 380:
the screenplays for both movies, to
- Page 381 and 382:
world cinema 1970 to the present Ar
- Page 383 and 384:
iran’s revolutionary cinema world
- Page 385 and 386:
Mina is resolute; she will find her
- Page 387 and 388:
The “Vow of Chastity,” signed b
- Page 389 and 390:
TEN THE NEW HOLLYWOOD Facing a new
- Page 391 and 392:
Francis Ford Coppola cut his teeth
- Page 393 and 394:
the ground floor with Jurassic Park
- Page 395 and 396:
Spectacle returned to the cinema wi
- Page 397 and 398:
to change into an exact duplicate o
- Page 399 and 400:
Zelig (1983, about the fictitious L
- Page 401 and 402:
oliver stone’s activist cinema Ol
- Page 403 and 404:
Dinner with Andre (1981), the low b
- Page 405 and 406:
through the Midwest in search of vi
- Page 407 and 408:
woman to direct a major feature fil
- Page 409 and 410:
Lee turned to Oprah Winfrey and Bil
- Page 411 and 412:
crime films ever made, which teeter
- Page 413 and 414:
the only film in history to be insp
- Page 415 and 416:
Moore’s provocative documentary F
- Page 417 and 418:
in a super conglomerate that now co
- Page 419 and 420:
Reeves) as he battles the subterran
- Page 421 and 422:
about the sinking of the famous oce
- Page 423 and 424:
GLOSSARY OF FILM TERMS auteur theor
- Page 425 and 426:
mask: A device for covering part of
- Page 427 and 428:
Directors BIBLIOGRAPHY Akerman, Cha
- Page 429 and 430:
———. Beauty and the Beast: Di
- Page 431 and 432:
McCarthy, Todd. Howard Hawks: The G
- Page 433 and 434:
Mizoguchi, Kenji Kirihara, Donald.
- Page 435 and 436:
Von Trier, Lars Björkman, Stig, ed
- Page 437 and 438:
Bogle, Donald. Blacks in American F
- Page 439 and 440:
Rodríguez, Clara E. Heroes, Lovers
- Page 441 and 442:
Cawelti, John G. The Six-Gun Mystiq
- Page 443 and 444:
Canada Evans, Gary. In the National
- Page 445 and 446:
Israel Kronish, Amy, and Costel Saf
- Page 447:
Mast, Gerald, ed. The Movies in Our
- Page 450 and 451:
index America Online (AOL), 378 Les
- Page 452 and 453:
index blacklist, 180-181 Blackmail,
- Page 454 and 455:
index Christopher Strong, 123, 124
- Page 456 and 457:
index de Toth, André, 185 Detour [
- Page 458 and 459:
index fantasies, 83, 119, 145, 154,
- Page 460 and 461:
index Goldwyn Pictures, 33 Der Gole
- Page 462 and 463:
index I Married a Witch, 141 Im Inn
- Page 464 and 465:
index Lean, David, 149, 223, 267 Th
- Page 466 and 467:
index Méliès production company,
- Page 468 and 469:
index Night Is My Future, 206 Night
- Page 470 and 471:
index Popiól i diament (Ashes and
- Page 472 and 473:
index SAG, 179, 180 The Sage-Brush
- Page 474 and 475:
index Spain, 209, 321, 334 The Spar
- Page 476 and 477:
index Toy Story, 383 tracking shots
- Page 478 and 479:
index Wilder, Billy, 85, 134, 153,