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Motion Pictures
Evolution of Narrative / George Meliés -
Development of Narrative Form
D.W.Griffith: Birth of a Nation / Intolerance -
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Soviet Silent Cinema & Theory of Montage
Dzigo Vertov: The Kino-Eye
Eisenstein: "The Battleship Potemkin" (Theory of Dialectical Montage) "October" (A laboratory for Intellectual Montage) -
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The Prewar German Cinema "Weimar Period"
Fritz Lang: "Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari" The Flowering of Expressionism
G.W.Pabst and Street Realism -
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The Coming of Sound and Color
The first sound on film: "The Jazz Singer"
The first color on film: "The Phantom of The Opera"
American Studio System and New Genres: MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century-Fox
Joseph von Sternberg
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Alfred Hitchcock
George Cukor, William Wyler, Frank Capra -
Hollywood in the Twenties
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton -
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Wartime & Postwar Italy, United States
Italian Neorealism
Filmnoir -
The Modern Sound Film
Orson Welles: "Citizen Kane" -
Period: to
Hollywood
Wide-screen and 3-D
Depth
Fifties Genres: Musical, Comedy, Western, Gangster films, Science fiction.
Independent Production and the decline of studio system -
Wind From The East
Rashomon
Kurosawa
Yasujiro Ozu
Off-Screen Space -
European Renaissance
Italian Auteurs: Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pasolini, Bertolucci
Scandinavian Cinema: Ingmar Bergman
Spain: Luis Bunuel
Germany: Volker Schlondorff, Fassbinder, Herzog, Wim Wenders -
The French New Wave
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Goddard
Alain Resnais
Claude Chabrol
Louis Maple
Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette -
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Hollywood 1965-Present
The Impact of Bonnie and Clyde
2001 Space Odyssey
The Effects of Video
From Mechanical Reproduction to The Virtually Real -
Third World Cinema
Latin America
Cuba
Africa
The Middle East
