
This episode reexamines some topics we have already looked at, but this time as context for one of history's greatest butcheries, rather than as pure film history. The development of cinema is intertwined with the forces that defined the 20th century. Today we explore how the First World War and the movies are cut from the same fabric, as we set the stage for some of the screen's greatest epochs -- German Expressionism, French Impressionism, Soviet Montage, and the Golden Age of American Sile...
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A New Translation of a Master Filmmaker: Dr. Anne McKnight on Long Take

37- Abel Gance, and the Prelude to the Post-War

36- Women's Pictures, Staring Women, that Women Were Watching

35- French Patriotic Melodrama
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