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Although cinema was increasingly dominated by special-effects films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Jurassic Park (1993) and Titanic (1997), the latter of which became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time up until Avatar (2009), also directed by James Cameron, independent films like Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and ...
New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Merritt, Greg. Celluloid Mavericks: A History of American Independent Film. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001. Musser, Charles (1990). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0-684-18413-3. Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, ed.
French astronomer P.J.C. Janssen came up with the idea for a "revolver to shoot the individual". This huge camera system used a Maltese cross-type mechanism, very similar to the system that would later be of great importance in the development of movie cameras.
New Cinema History is a movement of media historians dedicated to rewriting film history as a social history of film cultures, instead of merely an art history of the moving image. In the early 1990s, Annette Kuhn was among the first scholars to systematically research cinemagoing, in the context of the project "Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain."
The Adventures of a Good Citizen (1937) dir. Stefan Themerson; Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) dir. Roman Polanski; Das Blaue Licht (1932) dir. Leni Riefenstahl; Triumph of the Will (1935) dir. Leni Riefenstahl; Behind the Scenes of the Filming of the Olympic Games (1937) dir. Leni Riefenstahl; Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) dir ...
Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949–1989 (chapel Hill, 2002) Garncarz, Joseph, and Annemone Ligensa, eds. The Cinema of Germany (Wallflower Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 2012) 264 pages; analyses of 24 works from silent movies to such contemporary films as "Good Bye, Lenin!"
The 4K Ultra HD format will allow users to watch Amazon features in a resolution with four times the number of pixels displayed in the Amazon: A Leader in the Evolution of 4K Ultra HD Skip to main ...
This list of motion picture film formats catalogues formats developed for shooting or viewing motion pictures, ranging from the Chronophotographe format from 1888, to mid-20th century formats such as the 1953 CinemaScope format, to more recent formats such as the 1992 IMAX HD format.