Film Histories An Introduction and Reader
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Paul Grainge is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the author and editor of six books, including Promotional Screen Industries (with Catherine Johnson) (2015), Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube (2011), and Brand Hollywood: Selling Entertainment in a Global Media Age (2008). Mark Jancovich is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. Sharon Monteith is Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Cultural History at Nottingham Trent University. She is author of Advancing Sisterhood? Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction (2000) and Pat Barker (2002) and co-author of Film Histories (2007). Among other volumes she is co-editor of Gender and the Civil Rights Movement (1999; 2004) and South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture (2002).This is a substantial book which provides a comprehensive and concise history of film from the late 19th century to the present day. The book has a very user-friendly structure [and] the authors have managed successfully to combine two types of film text book: an all-embracing and succinct history book and an excellent collection of essays which provide a chronological analysis of the development of cinema... the book is an excellent general history for undergraduate film and media students and would also be very useful for those studying popular culture and cultural history.
- Millard Parkinson, Art, Design, Media Subject Centre Newsletter
The authors have managed successfully to combine two types of film text book: an all-embracing and succinct history book and an excellent collection of essays which provide a chronological analysis of the development of cinema … the book is an excellent general history for undergraduate film and media students.
Resource Review
With essays by Tom Gunning, Richard Abel, Douglas Gomery, Tino Balio, Barbara Klinger, etc., this collection assembles some of the best historical writing on cinema, and links them together through a sequence of introductory essays providing an overview and a context for each piece. Together, Film Histories offers its reader a collection of the leading examples of the methodologies available for the construction of the social, economic and cultural history of cinema.
- Richard Maltby, Head of the School of Humanities and Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University,