This comprehensive history of cinema from its origins to the present day treats the film medium as a global phenomenon with dynamic relationships among nations and cultures in all phases of its history. The text thoroughly covers the technological, aesthetic, and industrial history of films, but also emphasizes the mediums' interconnections with economic, social, and political movements and events. Relating the medium dynamically to other arts, society, economics, politics and culture, this volume shows how the history of film was shaped by wars, depression, regimes and events. The author provides a complete history of film from its beginnings with the emergence of cinema, the silent era and classic cinema, to the postwar transformation, the revival of cinema and the expansion of cinema today. For film fans and others involved in or interested in the history of film.

Film: An International History of the Medium

Humor & Entertainment

SKLAR, Robert

Movies

PRENTICE/HALL

This exploration of world cinema focuses on the interrelations of the film medium at every level - from craft, artistry, and textual citation to financing, distribution and exhibition.

Prime-Time America: Life On and Behind the Television Screen

Life on and behind the Television Screen.

Prime-time America: Life on and behind the television screen

Oxford University Press

Movie Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies by Robert Sklar.

Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Movies

Random House]

Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values. 80 black-and-white photos.

Movie-Made America

Vintage

FILM: AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE MEDIUM

Thames&Hudson

Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values. Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, transforming culture from the bottom up, radically revising attitudes toward pleasure and sexuality, and at the same time, cementing the myth of the American dream. No book has measured film's impact more clearly or comprehensively than Movie-Made America. This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D. W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genresfrom the screwball comedy of the 1930s to the "hard body" movies of the 1980s to the independents films of the 1990s. Combining panoramic sweep with detailed commentaries on hundreds of individual films, Movie-Made America is a must for any motion picture enthusiast.

Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies

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Often presented as a gangster, newspaper reporter, or private eye, the "city boy" seemed the quintessential product of urban America, although he was more a model for his audience than a mirror of social actuality. While blending the stories of the professional and political lives of Cagney, Bogart, and Garfield into one fascinating narrative, Robert Sklar probes the cultural forces that produced this vivid cultural icon and examines its power over masculine self-definition.

City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield

Biographies & Memoirs

Princeton Univ Pr

The Plastic Age 1917-1930

Examines the postwar breakdown of traditional genteel society and the emergence of the American mass culture

Literature & Fiction

George Braziller

Examines the postwar breakdown of traditional genteel society and the emergence of the American mass culture

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Film: An International History of the Medium

Film: An International History of the Medium

Prime-time America: Life on and behind the television screen

Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Movies

Movie-Made America

FILM: AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE MEDIUM

Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies

City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield

The Plastic Age 1917-1930

The Plastic Age 1917-1930