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A History of the Cinema from Its Origins to 1970 - Hardcover

 
9780809054800: A History of the Cinema from Its Origins to 1970

Synopsis

Physical description; 10 unnumbered, 674 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 641-649) and index. Contents; Part one : Before 1920. Inventions and discoveries ; Primitives ; The age of D.W. Griffith -- Part two : the 1920s. Aspects of the Soviet cinema ; The influence of the French avant-garde ; Weimar and Scandinavia ; Hollywood in the twenties -- Part three : the 1930s. Adapting to sound ; The Depression : the media and social conscience ; Utopianism and despair -- Part four : (1940-1956). The second World War ; Neo-realism and the Cold War -- Part five : (1956-1970). Internationalism ; The new wave ; Radical compromise. Subject; Motion pictures - History. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.

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