The Routledge Companion to Film History

The Routledge Companion to Film History is yet another in the publishers long running Companions series, sandwiched neatly between companions for children's literature (Rudd, 2010) (RR 2010/375) and race and ethnicity (Caliendo and McIlwain, 2011) (review forthcoming).

The volume is divided into two equal sized parts. The first is a collection of eleven theoretical and historical essays that use a number of themes to approach the history of film. Themes are; History of the Moving Image, Film as Art and Popular Culture, Production Process, Evolution of Sound, Alternative Modes, Cultural Difference, and Film's Relationship to...