MOVIE HISTORY - New edition
Gianni Rondolino

I. The archaeology of cinema
II. The cinematographic show
III. Griffith and cinema as an art form
IV. The European schools
V. The great season of American cinema
VI. Avant-garde cinema
VII. Cinema of the USSR
VIII. The great season of European silent movies
IX. American cinema in the time of Roosevelt
X. French cinema in the 1930’s
XI. Socialist realism
XII. Europe towards the war
XIII Italian neo-realism
XIV. Tradition and novelty in America and in Europe
XV. Cinema in the East and in Latin America
XVI. The "nouvelle vague"
XVII. Cinema in the 1960’s
XVIII. The end of Hollywood?
XIX. Cinema in emerging countries
XX The last twenty years

By now a classic, this work represents a reference point for scholars and cinema enthusiasts. This new edition keeps the same critical synthesis, exposed clarity and happy methodological order which determined the success of previous editions. An unedited chapter analyses the recent cinematographic panorama fitting it into the wider social-cultural picture of the last few years.

The history of cinema by Gianni Rondolino is a work of synthesis which gives the reader the key to understanding the roots of cinema today through the story of cinema yesterday.

Gianni Rondolino is professor emeritus of Cinema history and criticism at the University of Turin. He is the author of numerous essays and volumes, among which Luchino Visconti (1981) Roberto Rossellini (1989), Cinema and music (1991), and with D.Tomasi, The film manual (1995).

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