Foreign Film History

Author: Zheng Yaling
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: The author first clearly points out the characteristics of film as a product of 20th-century science and technology. The book also notes that the aesthetics of film are based on science and technology. The author emphasizes the significant impact of the development of documentary film in various historical stages, particularly several major documentary film movements, on the development of narrative film, as well as the continuous relationship between the schools of different eras. The development of Hollywood film is discussed from the perspective of the development of the film industry, which is entirely accurate. Additionally, classifying the film activities of early Soviet masters such as Eisenstein and Pudovkin as an important branch of the 1920s avant-garde film movement is also very important. For a long time, socialist film historians have dishonestly avoided this point.