Browse Hierarchy FILM4003: WF2: Film History, Industry and Technology

This module provides a historical overview of the interplay between the industrial context, social, economic and cultural policies, technological progress and changing means of expression in a complex medium such as cinema. The impact of a number of revolutions (types of camera, sound, colour, screen ratio, special effects, but also laws and financial aids and slumps) will also be studied as a means to discover new ways of narrating through film, with particular emphasis on the American and European film industries from the post-war era to contemporary cinema. Students will acquire the analytical tools for understanding the intricate relationship between technology, cinematic imagination, ideology, spectatorship, reception and intellectual climates.