Film : an international history of the medium /

Sklar, Robert,

Film : an international history of the medium / Robert Sklar, professor of cinema studies, New York University. - Second edition. - 600 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Includes filmographic.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Winner of a Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award, this volume presents the history of motion pictures, from pre-cinema. Providing an analysis of the principal films, directors, and national cinemas, it supplies a grounding in the social, economic, and political circumstances critical to the understanding of film as both art and industry.

0130340499 (PH) 9780130340498


Motion pictures--History.





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791.4309 / SKL