A short history of film /

Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-

A short history of film / Wheeler Winston Dixon & Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008. - xxxv, 441 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-409) and index.

The invention of the movies -- The birth of an American industry -- World cinema: the silent era -- The Hollywood studio system in the 1930s and 1940s -- International cinema through World War II -- Postwar challenges to the movies -- World cinema in the 1950s -- The 1960s explosion -- World cinema 1970 to the present -- The new Hollywood.

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Motion picture industry--History.
Motion pictures--History.

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