ISE Film History: An Introduction

Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of WisconsinMadison, where she earned her Ph.D. Her books include Eisensteins Ivan the Terrible (1981), Exporting Entertainment: Americas Place in World Film Markets 19011934 (1985), Breaking the GlassArmor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (1988), Storytelling in the New Hollywood:Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (1999), Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film after World War I (2005), and The FrodoFranchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood (2007).



David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of WisconsinMadison. He also holds a Hilldale Professorship in the Humanities and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen. He has also held the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress. His books include Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000; 2nd ed., Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011), Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging(University of California Press, 2005), The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies (University of California Press, 2006), The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed MovieStorytelling (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He has also written books on Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Sergei Eisenstein, digital cinema, and Hong Kong film.

Preface


Part One: Early Cinema
1 The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1880s - 1904
2 The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905 - 1912
3 National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism and World War I, 1913 - 1919


Part Two: The Late Silent Era, 1919 - 1929
4 France in the 1920s
5 Germany in the 1920s
6 Soviet Cinema in the 1920s
7 The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920 - 1928
8 International Trends of the 1920s


Part Three: The Development of Sound Cinema, 1926 - 1945
9 The Introduction of Sound
10 The Hollywood Studio System, 1930 - 1945
11 Other Studio Systems
12 Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930 - 1945
13 France: Poetic Realism, the Popular Front and the Occupation, 1930 - 1945
14 Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinema, 1930 - 1945


Part Four: The Postwar Era, 1945 - 1960s
15 American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945 - 1960
16 Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945 - 1959
17 Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945 - 1959
18 Postwar Cinema Beyond the West, 1945 - 1959
19 Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship
20 New Waves and Young Cinema, 1958 - 1967
21 Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945 - Mid 1960s


Part Five: The Contemporary Cinema Since the 1960s
22 Hollywood's Fall and Rise, 1960 - 1980
23 Politically Critical Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s
24 Documentary and Experimental Film Since the Late 1960s
25 New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe and the USSR Since the 1970s
Western Europe
Eastern Europe and the USSR
26 A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas since 1970New Cinemas, New Audiences
27 Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania since 1970


Part Six: Cinema in the Age of New Media
28 American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy: The 1980s and After
29 Toward a Global Film Culture
30 Digital Technology and the Cinema