Film

Preface = 7 Moving Pictures = 8 Who invented the movies? The fascination with moving pictures From the camera obscura to the camera First projection with a magic lantern Illusion of movement The stroboscopic effect A wheel brings pictures to life More toys Animated screen The first cartoon film Photographs The step toward moving photography A bet provides the impetus From serial picture to moving picture Pioneers of Cinematography = 22 The time is ripe Forward-looking actors Just a flash in the pan: the Bioscope Entrepreneurs run the race A Maltese cross to combat flutter The first films for movie theaters: Documents of everyday life The Cinematographe conquers the world A magician of the screen International Spread of Cinema = 32 An explosive beginning From traveling cinema to movie theaters From film craft to film industry The call for cinematic art The Brighton School Monumental spectacles from Italy Denmark: Cinematic dramatic art From New York to Hollywood: The Americans conquer the world market The first showdown The art and rules of editing Film Music = 46 The Art of the Silent Film = 50 War and cinema Film as a consumer product Slapstick The great American film comedians The European avant-garde French Impressionism Cinema pur Surrealistic film German expressionism The Soviet revolutionary film Montage experiments From the "montage of attractions" to "intellectual montage" The Development of Sound in Film = 68 Economic crisis changes the world The victory march of the sound film Adaptation difficulties The artistic challenge Film and reality German film before = 1933 The poetry of reality The British school of documentary film The classical Hollywood movie Film as daydream: musicals The flip side of the coin: gangster films Horror films Screwball comedy Propaganda and entertainment in Nazi cinema Anti-Hitler films Television = 88 The Post-War Period = 92 The new world order after the war Film at the zero hour: Italian neorealism "Every person is a hero" (Cesare Zavattini) Film noir From "good bad girls" to femmes fatales Typical stylistic characteristics The world comes undone Witch hunt and restoration Cinematic banning of the "red menace" The end of the studio system The master of suspense The great competition: television Technical innovations Improving the quality of the genre film Here come the kids European film artists Italy: Fellini and Antonioni Sweden: Bergman France: Tati and Bresson Japan India: Satyajit Ray Production = 124 New Waves = 128 Between new directions and tradition Cinema's fundamental change France: Nouvelle Vague England's free cinema Off-Hollywood The Oberhausen manifesto New German film The search for German identity Political cinema Pier Paolo Pasolini Cinema against repression The new Latin American cinema The boom in serial films The end of the genre film From the dream factory to the nightmare factory Sexual emancipation Film in a New Media World = 156 The "Global Village" The wonderful new world of media The new British television-film miracle Society consists of outsiders The new boom of the cinema New Hollywood in the 1970s: think young The victory march of the brat pack Blockbusters follow Personal union of direction and production The youngest tycoon New Hollywood as auteur cinema Cinema in the 1990s The age of computer animation Brief overview of the history of film = 180 Bibliography = 183 Index of film titles = 184 Index of names = 190

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