what are we going to discuss?
History of the World’s Cinema :)
which is
is based on the multimedia lectures, reading and self-learning (with leading questions after each lecture) and the leading book: David Thomson, Big Screen: The History of the Movies and What They Did to Us, London: Penguins, 2013.
1. The Story of the Movies and What They Do to Us? The beginnings of the cinema: cinema as an invention at the turn of the 19th / 20th century (short films by the Lumière brothers and Georges Méliès).
Must see:
Concise History of Cinema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBahe2_sZk0
Additionally:
History of Film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film
The History of the Discovery of Cinematography: http://www.precinemahistory.net
In Polish:
http://wyborcza.pl/7,101707,22316829,bracia-lumiere-i-ich-pierwszy-film-rodzi-sie-akcja-swiat.html
2. The Birth of Hollywood. The story of the cinema industry.
Paul Merton’s documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtCJj4ajbNc
3. Silent cinema. The beginnings of genres and the personality of Charlie Chaplin (early films by Charlie Chaplin e.g. Gold Rush 1925)
Main figure: Charlie Chaplin
4. German film expressionism: the birth of horror movies, relationships with Romanticism
("Cabinet of doctor Caligari" directed by R. Wiene 1920
"Nosferatu: symphony of terror" by F.W. Murnau 1922
Also:
Sunrise (1927).
Main figure L F.W. Murnau
FW Murnau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UkZpncOpdc
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NayFytQeBE
5. Experimental cinema/the avant-garde cinema: in the search of the new poetics of film ("The Man with the Movie Camera" directed by Dziga Vertov 1928, "The Adventure of a Good Citizen" directed by F. and S. Themersons, 1937)
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8
About Vertov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTcII0rSICA
Themersons: https://artmuseum.pl/en/filmoteka/praca/franciszka-and-stefan-themersonowie-przygoda-czlowieka
6. The sound breakthrough in the cinema / genre cinema in the sound cinema (musical, gangster movie, horror) ("Dracula", directed by T. Browning 1931)
The History of Sound at the Cinema:
Text (introduction): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_film
Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot5IryUt9SM
7. Classical Cinema / film adaptation / Cinema personalities ("Citizen Kane" directed by Orson Welles, 1941)
Additional reading:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/
8. Italian neorealism / realism as an issue in the cinema ("Bicycles Thieves" directed by Vittorio De Sica, 1945)
9. France: the French beginning of the cinema.
French New Wave/ La Nouvelle Vague ("Brethless" directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1960 or "Last year at Marienbad" directed by Alain Resnais, 1961)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/in-memory-of-alain-resnais
10. New trends in Europe / transformation in literature and culture after World War II (Czechoslovakian new wave, British “young angry”, e.g. “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”, by Tony Richardson, 1962)
11. Cinema personalities (Europe): Fellini, Bergman, Antonioni ("Persona" dir. I. Bergman, 1966)
12. USA: cinema of contestation and the youth culture ("The Graduate", directed by M. Nichols, 1967)
13. Cinema personalities: the Japanese, Indian cinema ("Throne of Blood" directed by Akira Kurosawa, 1957), Satyajit Ray (The Apu Trilogy, 1955-1959)
14. Postmodernism (Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
15. Contemporary adaptations of literature: ("Macbeth” by Justin Kurzel and other adaptations.)
Series online recommended to watch
which is
is based on the multimedia lectures, reading and self-learning (with leading questions after each lecture) and the leading book: David Thomson, Big Screen: The History of the Movies and What They Did to Us, London: Penguins, 2013.
1. The Story of the Movies and What They Do to Us? The beginnings of the cinema: cinema as an invention at the turn of the 19th / 20th century (short films by the Lumière brothers and Georges Méliès).
Must see:
Concise History of Cinema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBahe2_sZk0
Additionally:
History of Film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film
The History of the Discovery of Cinematography: http://www.precinemahistory.net
In Polish:
http://wyborcza.pl/7,101707,22316829,bracia-lumiere-i-ich-pierwszy-film-rodzi-sie-akcja-swiat.html
2. The Birth of Hollywood. The story of the cinema industry.
Paul Merton’s documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtCJj4ajbNc
3. Silent cinema. The beginnings of genres and the personality of Charlie Chaplin (early films by Charlie Chaplin e.g. Gold Rush 1925)
Main figure: Charlie Chaplin
4. German film expressionism: the birth of horror movies, relationships with Romanticism
("Cabinet of doctor Caligari" directed by R. Wiene 1920
"Nosferatu: symphony of terror" by F.W. Murnau 1922
Also:
Sunrise (1927).
Main figure L F.W. Murnau
FW Murnau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UkZpncOpdc
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NayFytQeBE
5. Experimental cinema/the avant-garde cinema: in the search of the new poetics of film ("The Man with the Movie Camera" directed by Dziga Vertov 1928, "The Adventure of a Good Citizen" directed by F. and S. Themersons, 1937)
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8
About Vertov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTcII0rSICA
Themersons: https://artmuseum.pl/en/filmoteka/praca/franciszka-and-stefan-themersonowie-przygoda-czlowieka
6. The sound breakthrough in the cinema / genre cinema in the sound cinema (musical, gangster movie, horror) ("Dracula", directed by T. Browning 1931)
The History of Sound at the Cinema:
Text (introduction): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_film
Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot5IryUt9SM
7. Classical Cinema / film adaptation / Cinema personalities ("Citizen Kane" directed by Orson Welles, 1941)
Additional reading:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/
8. Italian neorealism / realism as an issue in the cinema ("Bicycles Thieves" directed by Vittorio De Sica, 1945)
9. France: the French beginning of the cinema.
French New Wave/ La Nouvelle Vague ("Brethless" directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1960 or "Last year at Marienbad" directed by Alain Resnais, 1961)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/in-memory-of-alain-resnais
10. New trends in Europe / transformation in literature and culture after World War II (Czechoslovakian new wave, British “young angry”, e.g. “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”, by Tony Richardson, 1962)
11. Cinema personalities (Europe): Fellini, Bergman, Antonioni ("Persona" dir. I. Bergman, 1966)
12. USA: cinema of contestation and the youth culture ("The Graduate", directed by M. Nichols, 1967)
13. Cinema personalities: the Japanese, Indian cinema ("Throne of Blood" directed by Akira Kurosawa, 1957), Satyajit Ray (The Apu Trilogy, 1955-1959)
14. Postmodernism (Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
15. Contemporary adaptations of literature: ("Macbeth” by Justin Kurzel and other adaptations.)
Series online recommended to watch
- Birth of Cinema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0jm6j3s_uE
- Paul Merton’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtCJj4ajbNc&t=1446s
- Crash Course Film History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsnB4iBb78o
Syllabus in PDF in HERE