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I. American Film: A Short History

I. American Film: A Short History SMST215-06B American Media Week 31 (August 2) 1888 Thomas Edison develops motion picture camera 1900-1909 competition over technology and patents (Edison and Biograph), By 1909, the USA was the world’s largest film market. Nickelodeon.

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I. American Film: A Short History

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  1. I. American Film: A Short History SMST215-06B American Media Week 31 (August 2)

  2. 1888 Thomas Edison develops motion picture camera • 1900-1909 competition over technology and patents (Edison and Biograph), By 1909, the USA was the world’s largest film market. Nickelodeon. • 1903 The Great Train Robbery (d. Edwin Porter) • 1915 Birth of A Nation (first feature film) • 1919 Golden age of silent films begins

  3. 1922 The Hays Office (film censorship) • The rise of the film star • 1927 The Jazz Singer (‘you ain’t heard nothing yet!). By 1930 virtually all films were ‘talkies’ • 1928 First Oscars • 1933 King Kong

  4. 1939 Gone With The Wind • 1941 Citzen Kane • 1940-1945 Film as war propaganda • 1946 Peak of US box office (90 million Americans go to the movies weekly) • 1948 The Paramount Case (dissolving studio/exhibition monopolies) • 1948 Television arrives in America

  5. 1950s The rise of the teen audience + sci-fi (Cold War paranoia) Decline of the studio system. • 1960s Films incorporate more sexual and violent content on the big screen. Rise of the art film. • 1968 MPAA movie ratings introduced • 1970s ‘The New Hollywood’ (rise of the director), The rise of the big-budget ‘block-buster’(Star Wars, Jaws) • 1980s VCR for home use; multiplex cinemas

  6. The 1990s • 1995 Toy Story. First completely computer-generated film • 1997 DVDs introduced • 1997 Titanic. Most expensive film ever/highest grossing (single) movie ever • ‘prequels’ and ‘sequels’ (Star Wars);re-makes and re-releases; ‘indie’ cinema

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