For decades, women’s contributions to silent movies were mostly ignored. Motion pictures began in the East in...
Cinema and Theater
Follow cinema from early experiments in moving images to today’s global screen culture. These histories examine filmmakers and audiences while revealing how motion pictures reflected social change and transformed the ways people remember their world.
This kind of theater allowed for more lighting and special effects that could enhance the performances. By...
Exploring visual elements that deepens our comprehension of another world across the footlights and under the proscenium....
In the nineteenth century, enterprising toy makers developed a novel way to bring theater into the home....
The sound quality in ancient times was likely much better than it is today. By Brigit Katz It...
The Mummy, in its 2017 rendition, rehashes an 80-year-old franchise focused on revived Egyptian corpses. AlloCine Mummies are scary...
Moviegoers familiarize themselves with the joystick that will allow them to interact with the film ‘I’m Your...
George Brich/AP Photo By Dr. Leo Braudy / 03.01.2018 Leo S. Bing chair in English and American Literature Dornsife...
An Intertype Fotosetter, one of the most popular “first-generation” mass-market phototypesetting machines. The system is heavily based...
Daniel Day-Lewis won the 2012 Academy Award for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln. Is Spielberg’s historical drama...
Halloween skeleton from PublicDomanPictures.net By Dolly Stolze / 10.20.2017 I recently read an article by John Squires, published in 2014,...
Nikolaj Lübecker argues for the ethic of “feel-bad” films, movies in which desire for catharsis is built...
Pilgrims at Lourdes. Nick Thompson By Dr. S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate / 07.31.2017 Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies...
The original ‘Blade Runner’ took place in a dreary, dystopian Los Angeles in 2019. Warner Bros. By Dr....
Machiko Kyō and Toshiro Mifune in Kurosawa’s Rashômon (1951) / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Costica Bradatan / 07.03.2017 Professor...
By Dr. Lee Drummond / 03.09.2016 Professor Emeritus of Social and Cultural Anthropology McGill University [The mathematical...
Reconstruction of the Theatre of Dionysus / Utah State University, Creative Commons By Dr. Mark Damen Professor...