Film Studies 101: A Film Buff's Guide To Movie Movements

Scaling the heady peaks of auteurship and sliding down the scree slopes of wanton hackery, Empire’s Film Studies 101 has tackled everything from the birth of cinema to the technical wizardy of great cinematographers.

We’ve explained what a key grip does and revealed why an on-set honeywagon is a really terrible place to look for a snack. Now it’s time for things get real – neoreal, even – with a guide to the key movements that have defined cinema from the silent era to the present day. Don your brainiest specs and follow us on a journey. A journey through time.For more:

http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/film-studies-101-movie-movements/

EARLY SILENT DOCUMENTARIES: REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE CINEMA

Since the dawn of cinema, cameras have been taken around the world to capture unique and exotic sights previously available to audiences only in still photographs.

Motion picture pioneers the Lumiere brothers sent their cameras to get scenic shots of foreign landscapes and cultures, and rivals (such as Britain’s Mitchell and Kenyon) followed suit, creating programs that took audiences to faraway places. Mitchell and Kenyon narrated their presentations, turning the shows into events, while on the lecture circuit, explorers started using movie cameras to supplement their slide shows with moving picture footage.

These pre-documentary forays inspired filmmakers and explorers to take their cameras into more remote and inhospitable locations.

For more:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/early-silent-documentaries-real-life-adventure-cinema/