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Group C, Week 3: Why is cinema a powerful tool?
Why do you think cinema might be a particularly powerful tool in periods of political […]
Group A – Is cinema part of political history, or just a way of recording / documenting it?
Since its creation, film has always been a part of political and social history. It […]
Why might cinema be a particularly powerful tool in periods of political conflict or change? Group B
Cinema, like all art forms, is often overtly political and has been this way since […]
Group D: Working with Early Cinema
“My invention (the motion picture camera) can be exploited… as a scientific curiosity, but apart […]
Group B: Working with early cinema
As film historians, working with film history presents many challenges, especially when trying to critically […]
Group A: Working with early cinema
From the 1890s to 1910s, films took more of a narrative form as the tendency […]
Group C – Week 2: Working with early cinema
Upon reflection of the films studied over the course of two weeks, surprises seep from […]
Group C, Week 1: What is Film History?
Initially, as a group we perceived Film History as having a definitive beginning. However, further […]
Group A – Week 1 Blog Post Task
To appropriately define film history is challenging, as film itself has become a multidimensional art […]
Group D, What is Film History?
There are lots of different ways of looking at the history of film. Film history […]