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From its humble beginnings as a novelty in a handful of cities, cinema has risen to become a billion-dollar industry and the most spectacular and original contemporary art form. In The Oxford History of World Cinema, an international team of film historians traces the history of this... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jean-Luc Godard: Add a description of this character.
- D. W. Griffith
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Charlie Chaplin
- F.W. Murnau
- Fritz Lang
- John Ford
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Adolf Hitler
- Ingmar Bergman
- Alexander Korda
- Roberto Rossellini
- Clint Eastwood
- Jean Renoir
- Martin Scorsese
- Francois Truffaut
- David O. Selznick
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Akira Kurosawa
- Orson Welles
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Steven Spielberg
- David Cronenberg
Setting & Locations edit
- Hollywood
- Europe
- Germany
- France
- United States
- Great Britain
- Paris
- Italy
- Latin America
- New York City
- Japan
- Berlin
- India
- London
- Australia
- Soviet Union
- Spain
- Hong Kong
- China
- Moscow
- Russia
- Africa
- Poland
- England
- Canada
- Shanghai
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Mexico
- Hungary
- Brazil
- Cannes
- Los Angeles
- Taiwan
- Rome
- Czechoslovakia
- Tokyo
- Chicago
- Iran
- Vietnam
- Venice
- California
First Sentence edit
The history of the cinema in its first thirty years is one of unprecedented expansion and growth.
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 791.4309
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