CIN201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chess Fever, Cinema Of The United States, Russian Civil War
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Looking at the institutional support (the role the government played in filmmaking activities) Germans didn"t produce a body of theory, russians were practicing film theories (thought and wrote about their experiments in film) Russian films were dominated by french cinema first companies began to emerge around 1907 (ex. Stylistic: long take = actors dictate where viewers look. Lots of foreground and background action = staging depth. Film industry"s interests were not shared by the capitalist government. New government needed to unify the country, film became an instrument for the government to achieve those goals. 1919, the film industry becomes the army" of the government. Cinema is for us the most important of all the arts. vladimir. Visual medium = don"t have to be literate to understand. Film is portable, can easily be moved across the country. Can help unite the country can see what people on the other side of the country are doing.
