CTCS 200g Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Louis Feuillade, Georges Méliès

• School: USC
• Department: Cinema and Media Studies
• Course: CTCS 200g
• Professor: Bruckner Rene

Document Summary

Cluster of arts, technologies, and industries devoted to motion pictures based in cinematography: writing with movement . The history of cinema is a history of movement (especially during the rst 50 years, The de nition of movement(s), arguably, has changed and part of that is due to cinema. Historical scope of class between invention (1890s) and wwii era (1939-45) 1895-1900 - some of earliest lms: lumi re actualities france. Russian writer maxim gorky was one of rst few to see their lms. 1905 - patent diagram for hale"s pleasure railway, aka hale"s tours where passengers enter train car where there is a movie playing at the front on a little screen. The car rocks along with the movement, is the rst interactive experiential ride. Regardless of genre, budget, or national origin, the movies continue to be about movement. Emotion is motion: movies don"t just move, they move us emotionally (and sometimes.