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Film History and Criticism: 1890 – 1945 Film is not just an entertainment…

- - - - Films Connected
        Cinemas First Nasty Women (early 1900s)
        Suspense (Lois Weber, 1913)
        Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzer, 1940)
        Imitation of Life ( John M. Stahl, 1934
        
        formal innovation used to express female anxiety and agency
        
        subversion of passive femininity
        
        breaks the male gaze and exposes spectatorship itself
        
        visualizes race, identeity, and systemic inequality
- - - - editing creates political emotion and revolutionary meaning.
        
        self-reflexivity and cinema constriction
        
        emotional subjectivity without dialogue
        
        psychological realism and spiritual intensity
- - - - Sounds transform performance and raises issues of race and assimilation.
        
        critique of industrial capitalism
        
        spectacle, escapism, and mass production
        
        glamour, desire and cinematic excess
        
        noir eastethics refelctong postwar gender anxiety