Short History of the Movies, A (10th Edition)

The Tenth Edition of A Short History of the Movies continues the traditionscrupulously accurate in its details up-to-date free of jargonthat has made it the most widely adopted textbook for college courses in film history. This volume offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film through the studio heyday of the 1930s and 1940s and the "Hollywood Renaissance" of the 1960s and 1970s to the pictures and technology appearing in multiplexes and living rooms of today. This new edition wich as been revised and rewritten to reflect current scholarship recent industry developments and new films and filmmakers represents an accurate scrupulous updating of a classic.