POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Great Depression, White Southerners, Douglas Fairbanks
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One hour class will not be held monday october 17. Read the articles from part 5 (gender/race in media) - will not be on the midterm test. Test is in two hour class - thursday, november 3. Midterm is first three sections - six articles. Politics in film lecture 2 - week 5. Photography was invented in the early 19th century. Mathew brady was one of the first well-known photographer (lots of photography regarding the civil war - burning cities, battlefields) Cinema is part of the technological revolution. It was first scene as a gimmick / unsubstantial form of entertainment. Eadweard muybridge is c redited with inventing the moving image in 1877. Muybridge was hired by stanford to come up with a photographic sequence to see if a horse ever has all four feet off the ground. Jules marey is credited with creating the first motion picture camera (1880s)