"You ain't heard nothin' yet" : the American talking film ; history & memory ; 1927-1949
This volume provides a history of American cinema from the first of the "talkies" to the decline of the studio system. The largest section of the text covers the giants of American film direction including Welles, Hitchcock, Ford and Hawks, with a film-by-film breakdown of the career of each.
History
x, 573 Seiten 25 cm
9780195038835, 9780195130966, 0195038835, 0195130960
832838137
Preface ; The Relativity of Simultaneity ; Building an Einstein-Langevin Clock ; The Lorentz Transformation ; The Brain's Time Machine ; Here-Now and Elsewhere in Space-Time ; Three Important Rules for Time Travelers ; Your Space or Mine? ; How to Time Travel into the Future ; Future Shock ; Gravitational Time Dilation ; Tachyons. Cosmic Moment Lines. Transcendent Infinite Speeds ; Time Travel by Baloons and Strings ; Can John F. Kennedy Be Saved? ; Closed Timelike Curves in a Godelian Universe ; Wormhole Time Machines ; Adventures with Time ; Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation ; Some Concluding Musings and Thoughts ; References ; Appendix 1: The Grand Internet Time-Travel Survey ; Appendix 2: Smorgesbord for Computer Junkies
Includes indexes