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 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 […]