The New Film History

Download or read book The New Film History written by James Chapman and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-04-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Film History is an accessible and wide-ranging account of the methods, sources and approaches used by modern film historians. Designed for use on courses in film history, The New Film History offers readers an overview of key areas of research, including reception studies, genre, authorship and the historical film, together with detailed case studies centred on well-known American, Australian, British and European films. With contributions from fifteen leading film historians, this is the first major overview of the field of film history to be published in twenty years.