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    THE CINEMA BOOK 2ND EDITION Edited by Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink @ Publishing CONTENTS Intcoduction tothe Second Edition oi Inteoduction tothe Fiest Edition ‘sil Editors, Contributors and Advisors wae Attibutions x PART 1: CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD CINEMA INTRODUCTION . os THE RISE OF THE AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRY s Box-Office Attractions 5 ‘The Origins ofthe Stadio Sytem - 6 ‘The Coming of Sound and the Studio se inthe 1930s enaiiy 29 Censorship 7 ‘THE STUDIOS a : sell Introduction uM Paramount Pictures i 13 Introdvction 13 Paramount and the studio sytem 13 Authorship and house tye a ‘The war boom, the Paramount Decree and the television era Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Introduction 16 The emergence of MGM. . rere MGM in the 1930s ” The Mayer regime: sar-gente cycles ad steady decline ” Warner Bros Warners anda style ‘Warners and gene The social conscience of Warner Bros. ‘Warners and authorship ‘Columbia Pictures Introduction: Columbias populism CCapraand populism Stars at Columbia Columbia andthe decline of the studio system Columbia and television 20th Century-Fox Introduction: The Fox Fil Corporation 20th Century-Fox and its stars Politic andthe studio 20th Century-Fox and the decline of the studio system 26 RKO Radio Pictures 28 Introduction 28 RKO and studio style 29 RKO and genre: the flm noir eyle 2» RKO'S Bpictures 30 Universal o 3 Introduction 31 Universal, studio style and genre es. 31 ‘Universal inthe 19508 and 1960 oe STARS. 33 ‘The Hollywood Star Machine 33 The Hollywood system 3 Production/performance 4 Distribution/publicity 39 Exhibition/spectatorship 39 Studying stars 39 (CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD NARRATIVE 39 The Classic Nareative System. “a0 “The dase narrative structure 240 Classic codes of narrative cinems 40 PART 2: TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION 45 SOUND .ecseseseee a a7 coLouR : DEEP FOCUS i oat LUGHTING 3 WIDESCREEN st CAMERAS: 37 ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTION FORMATS: és, AND VIDEO. sa EDITING ... 59 “THE*NEW' TECHNOLOGIES 0 Interactive entertainments 1 Virtual Reality 62 PART 5: NATIONAL CINEMAS AND FILM MOVEMENTS GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM AND NEW (GERMAN CINEMA “ German Expressionism eects ace: ‘An industry in decline ‘ New German Cinema. ae SOVIET CINEMA, : a ‘The bile films : 74 Emergence of Soci esis 74 ITALIAN NEO-REALISM ae : 76 ‘THE FRENCH NOUVELLE VAGUE... 80 ‘THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY 83 Ealing Studios 83 Hammer Productions : 85 British Socal Realism: 1959-63 wn PART 4: ALTERNATIVES TO CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD EARLY CINEMA: AFTER BRIGHTON 98 ‘Cinema of Attractions ....-. ay The Emergence of Narrative Cinema. ....-20.- 95 Exhibition and Reception cee 96 NEW HOLLYWOOD 298 Three Versions of New Hollywood -.....2..0.00-+ 100 Disputing "The New’ i 101 “Event Cinema and High Concep 102 Into the Nineties : 103, ART CINEMA : re 106, ‘Art Cinema in Britain ets thie {Art Ginema asa Institution 107 ‘Art Cinema’ Formal Characteristics 108 Conclusion 10 EAST ASIAN CINEMA | iM Disinterest in usionism mM Mizoguchi and Ora : : ln Rediscovering Traditional Culture 2... mary AVANT-GARDE AND COUNTER CINEMA... i Surrealism. : : lan “The Postwar Avant-Garde... on Personal ln Structural lin 7 Avantgarde versus modernism i 17 Godard and Counter-cinema . . 7 Feminist Counter-cinema us Return to narative 19 ‘THIRD WORLD AND POSTCOLONIAL CINEMA co Third Cinema: Questions of Terminology ......2--+-s2-0++-.120 The Origins of Third World Cinema .....0. 0000. 0esesss120) Revritng the Past, 12 Allegrical Interpretations : mm THE CINEMA BOOK ‘The Decline ofthe Thied Worst Paradigas Fourth World and Indigenous Media Postcolonial Cinema - ‘Alternative Aesthetic Strategies Syneretism ‘Archaic sources and Para-modern aesthetics HINDI CINEMA ‘Some Historia! Problems Some Indus Phalke Films Prabhat Studios New Theatres Artcindustry and the state Issues PART NRE HISTORY OF GENRE CRITICISM. Genres: Problems of Definition eonography History and Ideology Genre and industry Genre and authorship (Genre: Rdirections inthe 1980s Genre Theory Since the Early 19805... THE WESTERN foe Introduction... “The Western and History Pounding Pathers “Ande Bazin Robert Watshow ‘Alan Lov: the westerns formal history Jim Kitses: Horizons West ‘will Wright, Gender and Sexuality inthe Western -- Male spectators and the western Italian westerns Westerns inthe 19808 and 1990s MELODRAMA ....---.- Introduction: Problems of Definition ‘Theorisng family melodrama ‘Thomas Esaeser: melodrama asa problem of style and articulation ‘Sex and Class in Melodrama Geaffey NowellSmith andthe male Oedipal ris (Chuck Klinhans: melodrama and real ie [Laure Mulvey: the two voices of melodeama rogessing the Debate Patriarchy and Capitalism Griselda Pollock: the repressed feminine (Christian Vivian: lass and sex in the maternal ‘melodrama Feminist Approaches to the Female Protayosist Melodrama and the status quo Recent Work on Melodrama and the Womans Film ‘CONTEMPORARY CRIME “The Detective Film ‘The Gangster Film Introduction “irs the gangster lm ba experience of at - Mearthur the gangsertriller as iconography «. ‘The gangster lm and ideology ‘The formal history ofthe gangster film Sti, technology and style ‘The death ofthe gangster tragedy or melodramat ‘The Suspense Theiler FILMNOR : Introduction .. Industry and aesthetics “37 237 137 138 138 40 mt a2 143 143 147 a7 a7 48 as. 9 150 150 151 32 158 153, 154 157 137 157 158 159 159 160 160 161 161 161 Genre and socal context 6 ‘Women infil nit os 0. : 186 [Noir and neonoir: ecent developments 7 ‘SCIENCE FICTION AND HORROR 2191 ScienceFiction 191 Horror eee ees 198 Introduction 94 Paycho-socilogical explanation 196 Robin Wood: the return ofthe repressed +... 197 Horror as affect 198 “The post structralist approach «.....0.00. 198 Feminisin and the horror film 200 ‘THE MUSICAL. ea 2 208 TTEENPICS 218 COMEDY ... se ACTION-ADVENTURE, Se PART 6: AUTHORSHIP AND CINEMA INTRODUCTION Cinema as Art or Commodity 235 The Artistas Creative Source sos... 00s eas “The Function of Authorship in Cinema 235 Authorsin Art Cinema ....esseseees 236 Ingmar Bergman 237 Federico Fellini. 239 ‘THE POLITIQUE DES AUTEURS : 20 André Bazin . cite 240 ‘Auteurs Versus Meteurs-en-scene Sole and Theme Jean Renoir Fritz Lang, Auteurs and Metturs-

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