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Understanding Film Technique in Historical Context |
[3.9.1] The history of the development of the movie camera from the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television. |
[3.9.2, 3.9.3, 3.9.4] Major "silent movie" figures included D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Cecil B. De Mille. |
Charlie Chaplin resources: |
[3.9.5] Discover Charlie Chaplin
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[3.9.7] PBS American Masters: Charlie Chaplin
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Citizen Kane resources: |
[3.9.8] Citizen Kane
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[3.9.10] Robert Yahnke's website
[3.9.11] Citizen Kane's Orson Welles
[3.9.12] Webquest: Citizen Kane
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[3.9.13] A famous scene of Cary Grant in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest being lured to an Illinois cornfield only to be attacked by a low-flying dust-cropper plane (for a storyboard, see Giannetti, 2004) demonstrates the deliberate juxtaposition of shots of Grant's face and escape movements with shots of the plane as it makes another turn to swoop down on Grant. |
[3.9.14] Stephen Nottingham: The French New Wave
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French "new wave" filmmakers: |
[3.9.15] Godard, Chabrol, and Truffaut,
[3.9.16] Federico Fellini
[3.9.17] Luis Buñuel
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Dogma movie resources: |
[3.9.18] Dogma 95 site
[3.9.19] Analyzing the Reality Effect in Dogma Films
[3.9.20] Dogma For Beginners: A Religious Commitment to Truth in Cinema
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Film history resources: |
[3.9.21] Tim Dirks: Film History
[3.9.22] Robert E. Yahnke, Cinema History
[3.9.23] Paul Burns: The Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography
[3.9.24] Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
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The History Channel: summary of film history, with links to directors |
[3.9.25] Motion picture photography
[3.9.26] Motion pictures
[3.9.27] Orson Welles
[3.9.28] The Film Foundation: The Story of Movies: free video program on the history of film
[3.9.29] The Film Foundation: Writing about History using Moving Images: studying film images in historical films
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| For further reading: |
Cook, D.A. (1996). A history of narrative film . New York: W.W. Norton. |
Giannetti, L, & Eyman, S. (2000). Flashback: A brief history of film, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. |
Gomery, D. (1991). Movie history: A survey. New York: Wadsworth. |
Mast, G., & Kawin, B. F. (2002). A short history of the movies. New York: Pearson Longman. |
Thompson, K, & Bordwell, D. (2002). Film history: An introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill. |
Sklar, R. (2002). A world history of film. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. |
Sklar, R. (1994). Movie-made America: A cultural history of American movies. New York: Vintage. |
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