Beschreibung:
The Routledge Companion to Film History is an indispensible guide for anyone studying film history for the first time. Incorporating a series of 11 introductory, critical essays on key subject areas, with a dictionary of key names and terms, it serves to introduce the reader to the field of film history in a comprehensive and well-rounded manner.
Editor's introduction Part I: Film history: a thematic approach 1. Natural Magic: A Cultural history of Moving Images Erkki Huhtamo 2. Film as popular culture Hilary Radner 3. Film as art Prakash Younger 4. The stages of the production process William Guynn 5. The evolution of sound in cinema Jay Beck 6. Experimental Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon 7. Documentary film Brian Winston 8. Animation Norman M. Klein 9. Filming difference David Desser 10. Making history through media Marcia Landy 11. Inscribing the historical: film texts in context Rosemarie Scullion Part II: A critical dictionary: history, theory, technique Bibliography Index