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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 ...
Slumdog Millionaire is the first Academy Award for Best Cinematography winner shot mainly on digital video. Avatar by James Cameron is the first 3-D film to be the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing the 2D ones. [citation needed]. It is also the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Cinematography shot entirely on digital video ...
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937 is a 2005 book by Zhang Zhen published by the University of Chicago Press.Based on her doctoral dissertation, it employs Miriam Hansen's concept of "vernacular modernism" to explore the first four decades of the cinema of China, with particular focus on Shanghai.
1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invented a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use. L'homme Machine, was directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey; it is the oldest black and white animated known film.
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.
The film initiated so many advances in American cinema that it was rendered obsolete within a few years. [8] Though 1913 was a global landmark for filmmaking, 1917 was primarily an American one; the era of "classical Hollywood cinema" is distinguished by a narrative and visual style which began to dominate the film medium in America by 1917. [9]
From ‘Go Fish’ and ‘Bound’ to ‘Bottoms,’ lesbian cinema has seen a transformation in the past three decades. Tracing the evolution of lesbian cinema, from 'Go Fish' to 'Love Lies Bleeding'
However, the introduction of the low-cost VHS video system for home televisions has decommissioned many porno cinemas as well as many 'second-run' theaters. People can pay to watch movies at home after a few short months following their theatrical release, through cable television or streaming media: pay-per-view (PPV) and video on demand (VOD).