Film History

The keyword Film History is tagged in the following 5 articles.

The Technological Evolution of Filmmaking and its Relation to Quality in Cinema

August 13, 2011 - 2814 words | Film and Cinema » Filmmaking

The development of motion picture complexity has been driven by a continuing technological evolution, ignited and manipulated by human initiative and inventiveness, which has afforded filmmakers the opportunity to practice a more complex craft to tell more complex... Read Article »

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Film Film History Technology Filmmaking Cinema

Hitler's Use of Film in Germany, Leading up to and During World War II

March 18, 2010 - 3193 words | Film and Cinema » Worl War II

German cinema from 1927 to 1945 was affected drastically by the political environment that grew within the nation. After Germany suffered drastically at the hands of the Versailles treaty and its reparations clause, Adolph Hitler, the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany, and the... Read Article »

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World War II Film Film History Germany Cinema Hitler Nazis Fritz Lang World War II Cinema

Perceptions of Knighthood: Comparing the Character of "The Knight" in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to the Knight in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal

December 17, 2009 - 1759 words | English » Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer’s description of “the Knight” in his “General Prologue” may be seen as a multi-layered narration. First he gives a very precise and historically relevant account of his campaigns. Based on what Chaucer knows about the knight&rsquo... Read Article »

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Geoffrey Chaucer Ingmar Bergman The Seventh Seal Knights The Round Table Film History The Crusades The Middle Ages Knights Knighthood Canterbury Tales The Black Plague English History

An Analysis of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity"

December 14, 2009 - 1636 words | Film and Cinema » Billy Wilder

In her article “Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema”, Laura Mulvey describes a way of analyzing and understanding cinema from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. A very similar approach is taken by Molly Haskell in her review of Hitchcock&rsquo... Read Article »

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Laura Mulvey Molly Haskell Double Indemnity Billy Wilder Film Noir Psychoanalysis Castration Anxiety Femme Fatale Freud Film History Film Criticism Film Journalism

An Analysis of Film Critic Andre Bazin's Views on Expressionism and Realism in Film

December 11, 2009 - 1692 words | Film and Cinema » Andre Bazin

Film critic Andre Bazin had very strong feelings on the subject of montage and realism. In his article “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema”, he explains his theory that montage, although necessary in many cases to make a film work, can be heavily overused... Read Article »

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Expressionism Film Film History Neorealism Andre Bazin Sergei Eisenstein German Expressionism Montage Battleship Potemkin Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Faust F.W.Murnau Orson Welles Citizen Kan