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Film histories: an introduction and reader/ Paul Grainge, Mark Jancovich and Sharon Monteith.

By: Grainge, PaulContributor(s): Jancovich, Mark | Monteith, SharonMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univesity Pess, 2007Description: 612 p.; 25 cmISBN: 978024081080Subject(s): Motion pictures | Motion picture industry | Motion pictures--HistoriographyDDC classification: 791.437

Contents:

Part I: Film History from its Origins to 1945 -- 1. The Emergence of Cinema Extract: Tom Gunning, 'The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, its Spectator and the Avant-Garde' -- 2. Organising Early Film Audiences Extract: Lee Grieveson, 'Why the Audience Mattered in Chicago in 1907' -- 3. Nationalism, Trade and Market Domination Extract: Richard Abel, 'The Perils of Pathé; or the Americanization of Early American Cinema' -- 4. Establishing Classical Norms Extract: Janet Staiger, 'Mass-Produced Photoplays: Economic and Signifying Practices in the First Years of Hollywood' -- 5. The Age of the Dream Palace and the Rise of the Star System Extract: Douglas Gomery, 'The Rise of National Theatre Chains' Afterword by Douglas Gomery -- 6. Competing with Hollywood: National Film Industries outside Hollywood Extract: Thomas Elsaesser, 'Social Mobility and the Fantastic: German Silent Cinema' 7. The Rise of the Studios and the Coming of Sound Extract: Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire, 'Translating the Talkies: Diffusion, Reception and Live Performance' -- 8. Realism, Nationalism and 'Film Culture' Extract: Haidee Wasson, 'Writing the Cinema into Daily Life: Iris Barry and the Emergence of British Film Criticism in the 1920s' -- 9. Adjustment, Depression and Regulation Extract: Cynthia Erb, 'From Novelty to Romance: King Kong's Promotional Campaign' -- 10. Totalitarianism, Dictatorship and Propaganda Extract: Richard Taylor, 'Ideology as Mass Entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet Cinema in the 1930s' -- 11. The Common People, Historical Drama and Preparations for War Extract: Tino Balio, 'Columbia Pictures: The Making of a Motion Picture Major, 1930-1943' -- 12. Wartime, Unity and Alienation Extract: Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black, 'What to Show the World: The Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942-1945'.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	791.437 GRA/I (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P04544

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Part I: Film History from its Origins to 1945 --
1. The Emergence of Cinema Extract: Tom Gunning, 'The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, its Spectator and the Avant-Garde' --
2. Organising Early Film Audiences Extract: Lee Grieveson, 'Why the Audience Mattered in Chicago in 1907' --
3. Nationalism, Trade and Market Domination Extract: Richard Abel, 'The Perils of Pathé; or the Americanization of Early American Cinema' --
4. Establishing Classical Norms Extract: Janet Staiger, 'Mass-Produced Photoplays: Economic and Signifying Practices in the First Years of Hollywood' --
5. The Age of the Dream Palace and the Rise of the Star System Extract: Douglas Gomery, 'The Rise of National Theatre Chains' Afterword by Douglas Gomery --
6. Competing with Hollywood: National Film Industries outside Hollywood Extract: Thomas Elsaesser, 'Social Mobility and the Fantastic: German Silent Cinema' 7. The Rise of the Studios and the Coming of Sound Extract: Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire, 'Translating the Talkies: Diffusion, Reception and Live Performance' --
8. Realism, Nationalism and 'Film Culture' Extract: Haidee Wasson, 'Writing the Cinema into Daily Life: Iris Barry and the Emergence of British Film Criticism in the 1920s' --
9. Adjustment, Depression and Regulation Extract: Cynthia Erb, 'From Novelty to Romance: King Kong's Promotional Campaign' --
10. Totalitarianism, Dictatorship and Propaganda Extract: Richard Taylor, 'Ideology as Mass Entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet Cinema in the 1930s' --
11. The Common People, Historical Drama and Preparations for War Extract: Tino Balio, 'Columbia Pictures: The Making of a Motion Picture Major, 1930-1943' --
12. Wartime, Unity and Alienation Extract: Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black, 'What to Show the World: The Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942-1945'.

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