INTRODUCTION TO FILM STUDIES (NOTES)

 Introduction to Film Studies. (Notes)

• In 19th-century cinema lived in multiple forms. Some were slowly emerging and some were slowly dying.

• Cinema was made without sound and music still became famous in the world.

• In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge perfected the large-scale panorama of San Francisco, entering early photographic studies of motion.

• In the late nineteenth-century cinema emerged from the diverse world of toys and machines that created an illusion of movement.

• Thomas Edison's Kinetography and Cinematography recorded the first film.

• Etienne Jules Marrey helped with chronophotography that suggested the way of thinking about time and motion for successive frames.

Why study films?

• Studying films reveal the dimensions of various aspects that are deeply social, historical, industrial, technological, philosophical, political, aesthetic, psychological, and personal.

• The study of cinema is like pursuing a historical hydra with tentacles reaching all aspects of individual and collective lives.

• Study of cinema enlarges his\her knowledge and experience of the film by focusing cinematography, editing sound, and narrative.

What is a Film?

• Film is a series of moving images that express stories.

• American Hollywood films flood the film industry markets.

• One of the largest film industry is not the United States, instead, it belongs to India producing 800 to 900 films, mostly Hindi super-production, huge stars, and music. 

What is Cinema?

• In other words, cinema is known as moving pictures in a successive way to create a sense of movement.

• In 1997 Andre Bazin influential French film theorist, had the greatest impact on film arts and critics than that of any single director, actor, or producer in the history of cinema.