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Mar 30, 2018 · Highly recommended for all collections, this text would also make an excellent textbook for introductory film-studies courses." --Library Journal, starred review "A Short History of Film is a comprehensive and detailed overview of the last 100 years of international film history. It will prove to be a useful reference tool for all students of ...
- Hardcover
- Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Mar 30, 2018 · The authors touch all the bases--they address new trends in international moviemaking, technologies, and critical theory and the emergence of new national and ethnic cinemas--and relate film history to social history. Each new technique, style, school, trend, and newly visible ethnic or feminist group takes its place in the larger history, and ...
Softcover. Condition: Good. Third Edition, Third. With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema-especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers-an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this ...
Feb 15, 2013 · Dixon is a prolific author of books of film history and cultural criticism, an active writer on film and popular culture, as well as an experimental filmmaker and video artist. Dixon's best-selling textbook "A Short History of Film" (2008, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) was reprinted six times through 2012.
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- Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Sep 14, 2004 · A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining. Discover the latest buzz-worthy books, from mysteries ...
Dixon is a prolific author of books of film history and cultural criticism, an active writer on film and popular culture, as well as an experimental filmmaker and video artist. Dixon's best-selling textbook "A Short History of Film" (2008, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) was reprinted six times through 2012.
- Paperback
- Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Feb 15, 2013 · A Short History of Film, Second Edition, provides a concise and accurate overview of the history of world cinema, detailing the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from 1896 through 2012. Accompanied by more than 250 rare color and black-and-white stills--including many from recent films--the new edition is unmatched in its ...
- Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
