Short History of the Movies, A: Abridged Edition
by Kawin, Bruce; Mast, GeraldEdition: Abridged
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary
This is the essential core of Mast and Kawinrs"s classic in a streamlined volume: the most accurate, carefully updated account of cinema today in a clear and lively book. Building on Mastrs"s astute and lively history of cinema, Kawin has refined and updated the fascinating story of cinemars"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 Kawinrs"s classic book are available in a compact version, judiciously streamlined at an even trimmer price.
Table of Contents
| Introductory Assumptions | |
| For Further Viewing | |
| 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 | |
| Emile Reynaud | |
| Photography | |
| Muybridge and Marey | |
| Early Cameras and Films | |
| The Kinetoscope | |
| A Sound Film and Studio | |
| Projection | |
| The Magic Lantern | |
| The Loop and Other Solutions | |
| The Lumiegrave;re Brothers | |
| The Vitascope | |
| The First Films | |
| For Further Viewing | |
| Film Narrative, Commercial Expansion | |
| Early Companies | |
| Narrative | |
| Cohl and Others | |
| From Brighton to Biograph | |
| Business Wars | |
| The Film drsquo;Art | |
| For Further Viewing | |
| Griffith | |
| Apprenticeship | |
| Biograph: The One-Reelers | |
| Two Reels and Up | |
| The Birth of a Nation | |
| Intolerance. 1917-31 | |
| Broken BlossomsandWay Down East | |
| The Struggle | |
| For Further Viewing | |
| Mack Sennett and the Chaplin Shorts | |
| Krazy Keystones | |
| Charlie | |
| For Further Viewing | |
| Movie Czars and Movie Stars | |
| Stars over Hollywood | |
| The First Stars | |
| California, Here We Come | |
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