electiveHQ

This module introduces key moments in film history up to 1980. It covers major film movements (including German expressionism, Italian neorealism, the French new wave, and Third Cinema) and national cinemas including Hollywood cinema as well as cinemas from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition to surveying landmarks in global film history, it also introduces methodologies of film history—how we, as researchers and as film studies students, do film history—covering a range of different approaches such as histories of film style, film technology, film culture, and film industries, and reflecting on how film history has been constructed, what’s been excluded or privileged and why, as well as situating film in relation to major historical events of the twentieth century. Finally, it emphasises research and scholarship skills that will be useful throughout your study of film.