Month: April 2013

In the 1970s and 1980s, multinational corporations bought and merged many movie studios, ending...

By the 1960s, Hollywood was in decline, unable to keep up with the radical political and cultural...

World War II left the European film industry in ruins, as only Italy’s production facilities...

The transition from silent to sound films caused great upheaval in the film industry, requiring...

The earliest American films, which appeared around 1895, were primarily a working-class pastime....

Film theory is a collection of interpretative frameworks developed over time in order to...

The profit motive driving Hollywood studios leads producers to repeat, with some variation,...

Cinematography Cinematography describes the process by which a film strip is exposed to light to...