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- This abridgement is intended to accommodate courses preferring a briefer text, or to offer a version that can work as one of several required texts.
- An emphasis on key technical and aesthetic principles provides solid scholarship in an accessible, intelligent, and highly readable format.
- Approximately 330 black-and-white photographs—including frame enlargements and production stills—supplement the narration.
- Chronological order and concise chapters make the text easy to synchronize with a survey course, while the extensive and unparalleled filmography is ideal for background assignments or individual study.
- Evaluations of great works from such directors as Griffith, Dreyer, Wenders, Scorsese, Egoyan, Zhang, Bergman, Godard, and Hitchcock illuminate conflicts and controversies in many areas of filmmaking. Other directors’ works discussed include Theodoros Angelopoulos, Chen Kaige, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, Samira Makhmalbaf, Chris Marker, Oscar Micheaux, Roman Polanski, Jan Svankmajer, Lars von Trier, Agnes Varda, Lois Weber and Edward Yang.
- Extensive coverage of international film enables comparison and contrast between American films and those of other countries, particularly England, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Japan, Iran, and China.
- Draws from a more diverse array of filmmakers, including women, independent, multicultural, and international filmmakers than comparable books.
- Annotated list of recommended DVDs for further study is placed conveniently at the end of each chapter.
- An updated section on the "Persistence of Vision" provides a fresh look at this fundamental theory about how we “see” film images. This material marks the first time a film history textbook has acknowledged that persistence of vision has nothing to do with the perception of apparent motion.
- Provides significant revision of the early history of the narrative film.
- The chapter on the history and explanation of digital cinema (Ch. 18) updates the book in an important area and includes coverage of the next generation of digital camera systems and projectors.
- Updated coverage includes information about emerging and newly recognized filmmakers.
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