History of Narrative Film / Edition 4

by David A. Cook

Overview

Suitable as both a reference and a teaching text, this volume integrates film history and aesthetics with an analysis of the technological, social, and economic contexts of world cinema. It concentrates on narrative film, excluding documentary cinema, animated cinema, and the experimental avant-garde. The fourth edition features a new chapter on computer generated imaging as well as a new section of plates illustrating the development of color film technologies. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900393978680
Publication date:	12/05/2003
Pages:	1120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

David A. Cook is a Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 (University of California Press, 2002).