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{en} Liz-Anne Bawden (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Film (New York - London: Oxford University Press, 1976)

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"Provides descriptions of seven hundred important films, biographies of actors, directors, producers, writers, and others, histories of national industries and production companies, and explanations of technical processes."--

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-{en} Don Allen (ed.), '''''The World of Film and Filmmakers: A Visual History''''' (New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1979)
+{en} Liz-Anne Bawden (ed.), '''''The Oxford Companion to Film''''' (New York - London: Oxford University Press, 1976)
 == Abstract ==
-"An up-to-date introduction to the film medium and industry examines the origins and development of the cinema and specific aspects of the filmmaking process and film genres, featuring a survey of the sound cinema since the thirties and a guide to filmmakers and actors."--
+"Provides descriptions of seven hundred important films, biographies of actors, directors, producers, writers, and others, histories of national industries and production companies, and explanations of technical processes."--
-== Contents ==
-* I. The origins of the cinema : 1. Magic pictures: the image moves -- 2. Capturing life: animated photographs -- 3. The first picture show -- 4. Farce, magic and history: early French cinema -- 5. Film discovers a language: D. W. Griffith -- 6. Movies becomes big business -- 7. Generation of monsters: the German expressionists -- 8. Revolution: Soviet film in the 1920s -- 9. Hollywood's golden era: the 1920s -- 10. France resurgent: Impressionism and surrealism -- 11. The sound revolution
-* II. Fifty years of sound cinema : 12. The thirties -- 13. The forties -- 14. The fifties -- 15. The sixties -- 16. The seventies -- 17. Television and film
-* III. The dream industry : 18. Hollywood: the rise of the studios -- 19. Putting on style: The Hollywood studios -- 20. The independents: producers outside the studios -- 21. Realism versus the dream factory -- 22. The star system: screen idols -- 23. Shaping the modern cinema
-* IV. Film making today -- 24. How the camera works -- 25. How the projector works -- 26. Capturing colour -- 27. Film magic: special effects -- 28. Stretching the image: the widescreen scene -- 29.Ways of using sound
-V. How a film is made : 30. Costing the film -- 31. Written by... -- 32. The producer -- 33. The director -- 34. The actors -- 35. Set versus location -- 36. the production unit -- 37. The art department -- 38. Lighting: the cameraman/cinematographer -- 39. Capturing sound -- 40. The editors -- 41. The laboratory -- 42. Adding music and dialogue -- 43. Selling movies: publicity and advertising -- 44. Release: promotion and distribution -- 45. Censorship
-* VI. Ways of looking at film -- 46. Appreciation through understanding -- 47. Film criticism and the audience -- 48. Film and society : Who makes films and why ; Who sees films and why ; Film reflects society ; Film affects society ; Screen sex and violence -- 49. Film genres : The western ; The comedy ; The romance ; The war film ; The epic ; The musical ; The thriller ; The animated film ; Horror and science fiction ; The documentary ; The political film -- 50. The director as auteur: John Ford and Howard Hawks ; Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock ; Ingmar Bergman ; Jean-Luc Godard -- 51. Film language -- 'Reality' in film ; Montage again ; 'Modernity' in film ; The decline of the narrative ; Future directions.
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