CIN201Y1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 114 pages long!)
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Biographical history: focusing on an individual"s life history. Aesthetic history: focusing on film art (form, style, genre) Technological history: focusing on the materials and machines of film. Social/cultural/political history: focusing on the role of cinema in the larger society. Historical explanation involves concepts that organize the evidence produced by not history specialized knowledge. Which events occurred around when the film was made or took place. Individual causes: a historical change influenced by the attitudes or behavior of individuals. Methodological individualism: belief that all historical explanation must appeal to person-based causes sooner or later. Great man theory of history: assumption that only individuals have the power to create historical change. Group causes: many people together often have more influence than the individual. Holism/methodological collectivism: any historical explanation must ground itself in group-based causes. Institutions: government agencies, film studios, distribution firms, and other formal, organized groups.
