Cinema Novo: an entry point for looking at Brazil
The meeting of formal invention and social questions helps open up a major movement in Brazilian cinema.
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Film history
Movements, changes and memories of cinema.
Preserving a film means more than keeping a copy
Conservation, documentation and access help a work survive changes in media and technology.
Alice Guy-Blaché and a broader memory of cinema
Discovering less-remembered careers changes the questions we ask about authorship and preservation.
The French New Wave: many ways to renew cinema
The term gathers different paths and works better as an invitation to discovery than as a visual formula.
Italian neorealism: looking at everyday life
The encounter between characters and social conditions offers an entry into an important film movement.
German expressionism: when space seems to feel
Sets and contrasts can make the image an experience of instability rather than simply a representation of a place.
The arrival of sound did not happen all at once
A familiar milestone helps explain the transition, but does not summarise every experiment in synchronisation.
Colour in cinema has a history older than digital images
Tinting and other processes show that older imagery is not simply divided into black and white or naturalistic colour.
Silent cinema does not mean a silent screening
Musical accompaniment reminds us that a film and its exhibition experience are not the same thing.
Cinema grew from many experiments with moving images
Before becoming a shared habit, watching images move involved different devices and forms of presentation.