A History of Narrative Film

An encyclopedic account of the development of cinema into a narrative-centred, industrialised art form. Sections on cinematography, Victorian optical toys, Georges Melies, Edwin S. Porter, the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), Star System, block booking, exhibition, Pathe Freres, Louis Feuillade, Societe Film d'Art, D.W. Griffith, Biograph, Mutual Film Company, The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, cinema in Weimar Germany, UFA, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, German Expressionism, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, The Parufamet agreement, G.W. Pabst, Soviet Silent cinema, Dziga Vertov, Kino-Eye, Lev Kuleshov, Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, socialist realism, Thomas Ince, Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, MPPDA, Hays Office, censorship, Cecil B. De Mille, Ernst Lubitsch, Erich von Stroheim, sound, Vitaphone, Fox Movietone, Studio system, production code, MGM, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, Poverty Row, Josef von Sternberg, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor, William Wyler, Poetic Realism (France), Jean Renoir, Orson welles, Citizen Kane, Italian Neo-realism, communism, Joseph McCarthy, the blacklist, Widescreen, 3-D, CinemaScope, Cinerama, anamorphic widescreen processes, musicals, westerns, science fiction, genre, independent production, Nouvelle Vague, French New Wave, Robert Bresson, Jacques Tati, Max Ophuls, Alexandre Astruc, Andre Bazin, Cahiers du cinema, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Louis Malle, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Agnes Varda, Jacques Demy, Federico Fellini, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Pasolini, Bertolucci, Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, India, Satyajit Ray, Volker Schlondorff, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Bonnie and Clyde, 2001: a space odyssey (Stanley Kubrick), The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)