history of film: wikipedia POV (my philosophy-film notes)
film history links *
camp: seven ages of film intro to intro *
First Film History Page (Movies History)
* Recommended: Film Art, 7th ed.
David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson + Film History, 2nd ed. (***) On the History of Film Style, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. and Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, Anthology, co-edited with No Carroll. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
Citizen Kane (for Ch. 4. The Shape of film History): economics, politics, aethetics = movies, film, cinema. (the transitions: culture and society, norms, myths, fantacies, dreams, hopes)
Politics = Ideology, from "Entertainment to Control"?
* National Identity -- and the world (global language form and values). Is Holywood an "American" dream factory?
* "the form of film is revolutionary... the conetent is most often convervative of traditional values". (262)
* dichotomy between realism (mimesis) and expressionism (Movies vs. Films, again)
* the phenomenon of celebrity (American Century, democracy and market) = Star Cinema (265) * Heroes and Fairy-Tales
The postmodern = end of cinema (358)
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National and World Cinema:
* American -- Chaplin, Welles, Forman, Tarantino(Pulp Fiction?)
* Italian -- Fellini (8.5)
* Russian -- Eisenstein, Tarkovsky (Soviet vs. Russian: film and ideology).
French New Wave(?) Godard?
German -- silent + several...
Each director is represented (usually) by a single film/movie.
This page is only to support the subject pages; take "Intro to Film" or "History of Cinema" (left, sample) classes; take them before reading "Film & Movies"... In Monaco book read Ch. 4!
I still to hyperlink the analysis pages with directing (subjects) webpages: history with the story of discovering and inventing FILM LANGUAGE.
Sometimes I do not know what way to go and you can see American Directors, US and USA pages; I have to wait when the pages will find their own shape and place within "the big picture"...
history.txt and other ".txt" files are mostly the links to amazon or webpages (use them for navigation). As well as FAQ and appendix, list and other "service" pages (bottom).
For film-philosophy read something like North and/or my nonfiction POV ( no updates ).
... In short, I do not know how to deal with "National Cinema" -- indeeed, could I place Bergman under "Sweden"? Europe? Let somebody else do it...
How do I struggle with my personal film problems? -- notes (in every directory). Anatoly film study
"The cinema, wrote the documentarist Paul Rotha in the 1930s, 'is the great unresolved equation between art and industry'. It was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms which have dominated the cultural life of the twentieth century. From the humble beginnings in the fairground it has risen to become a billiondollar industry and the most spectacular and original contemporary art." [ from intro by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith ]
links: new --> independent cinema sites *
... The changes that have taken place in world cinema since 1945 have been for the most part gradual. There is no single event comparable to the rapid transition to sound that took the world by storm around 1930. Nevertheless the years around 1960 can be seen as a watershed, with developments across the world concurring to make the modern cinema different in many respects from that of previous periods... and this is what we are focus on!
Both artistically and politically, the most exciting developments in world cinema since 1960 have taken place outside the mainstream. The questioning political climate of the 1960s combined with the introduction of new lightweight technology to produce a revolution in documentary, symbolized by the idea of cinéma-vérité. The film avant-garde, quiescent since the 1930s, revived in the same climate, symbolized in the 'Underground'. [Oxford History]
Robert E. Yahnke, Professor (with my links): [ chronology ]
Chapter 1 Films from the Silent Era * Chapter 2 Classic Films from the Hollywood Studios, 1934-1946 * Chapter 3 Classic International Films, 1934-1960 * Chapter 4 The 1950s--Focus on American Films * Chapter 5 Growing Up on Films from the 1960s * Chapter 6 The 1960s--Rise of the Director as "Auteur" * Chapter 7 The 1970s--Era of Cynicism, Disenchantment, & Rebellion * Chapter 8 The Late 1970s--Psychological Portraits * Chapter 9 The 1980s--Towards an International Cinema * Chapter 10 The Late 1990s--Independent Films, New Voices *
Back to fhistory *
the movies game
* 2005 updates 2006
NEW: new
2008 -- FM
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