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'''''L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat''''' ('''''The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station''''' is an [[1895 in film|1895]] [[France|French]] [[Short subject|short]] [[black-and-white]] [[silent film|silent]] [[documentary film]] directed and produced by [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]]. It was first screened on [[December 28]] [[1895]] in [[Paris]], [[France]], and was shown to a paying audience [[January 6]] [[1896]].]] | '''''L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat''''' ('''''The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station''''' is an [[1895 in film|1895]] [[France|French]] [[Short subject|short]] [[black-and-white]] [[silent film|silent]] [[documentary film]] directed and produced by [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]]. It was first screened on [[December 28]] [[1895]] in [[Paris]], [[France]], and was shown to a paying audience [[January 6]] [[1896]].]] |
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- "Film is a genuine art. It is genuine in that it is strictly popular. Like all the arts its apppeal is based on a few primitive, and therefore universal, instincts and mechanisms in man. Sex and combat are the chief instincts. --after Terry Ramsaye (1926).
- "Voyeurism is not just one of the primary tools of cinema, but of written fiction too."
- "The Kino is a vulgar modern entertainment and I doubt if it can tell us anything serious about the modern condition." --Sigmund Freud
- "They can keep their Bressons and their Cocteaus. The cinematic, modern marvelous is popular, and the best and most exciting films are, beginning with Méliès and Fantômas, the films shown in local fleapits, films which seem to have no place in the history of cinema." --Ado Kyrou “The Marvelous is Popular.”
In the history of fiction, film became the dominant medium after the arrival of sound film in the late 1920s and early 1930s, displacing the novel and theatre. Until the arrival of home video, film was a community based entertainment medium. In recent years, video games have displaced films as the top grossing entertainment medium.
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Research interests
- Art film
- Auteur theory
- Avant-garde film
- Banned films
- Cult film
- European cinema
- Experimental film
- Exploitation film
- Film criticism
- Film production as an art
- Film theory
- The male gaze
- Giallo
- Horror film
- History of fiction
- Midi Minuit Fantastique French film magazine
- Paracinema
- Porn chic
- postmodern cinema
- Sex in film
- Surrealism and film
- Violence in film
- Effects of the home video revolution
- Voyeurism and the nature of cinema
- Unwatchability
- Wayney of Chaotic Cinema
- Category:World Cinema Classics
History
Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication, entertainment, and mass media in the 20th century. Films have had a substantial impact on the arts, technology, and politics.
Biases of this wiki
- Disregard for Academy Awards
Bibliography
- Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984
- Le Surréalisme au cinéma by Ado Kyrou
- Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
- Midnight Movies (1983)
- Incredibly Strange Films (1986)
- Cult Movie Stars
- 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2004)
- The Haunted Screen (1952) by Lotte Eisner
See: Film books
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