Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802095089 ISBN 13: 9780802095084

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2007

Synopsis

Arranged chronologically, Film Histories is a wide-ranging anthology that covers the history of film from 1885 to the present. Each chapter contains an introduction by the editors on key developments within the respective period, followed by a classic piece of historical research about that period. Various approaches to film history are taken by the authors of the articles, exposing readers to different forms of historical research. Topics include: the history of audiences, exhibition, marketing, censorship, aesthetic history, political history, and historical reception studies.

Film Histories concentrates on the so-called historical turn in film studies, demonstrating that film history is about more than simply key films, directors, and movements. Also included is a preface explaining the structure and organization of the book. The contents are divided into sections on American and non-American research, thus designed to reach a wide student audience at the undergraduate level. Chapter introductions provide an overview of international developments in film.

About this title

About the Authors

Paul Grainge is an assistant professor in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Mark Jancovich is a professor in the School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Sharon Montieth is a professor in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

From the Back Cover

This collection assembles some of the best historical writing on cinema, and links them together through a sequence of introductory essays providing an overview and a context for each piece. Together, "Film Histories" offers its readers a collection of the leading examples of the methodologies available for the construction of the social, economic and cultural history of cinema.-Richard Maltby, Flinders University

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802095089
• ISBN 13: 9780802095084
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 590
• Editor: Grainge Paul, Jancovich Mark, Montieth Sharon