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  2. Modernist film - Wikipedia

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    Early modernist film came to maturity in the era between WWI and WWII, with characteristics such as montage and symbolic imagery, manifesting itself in genres as diverse as expressionism and surrealism (as featured in the works of Fritz Lang and Luis Buñuel) [1] while postmodernist film – similar to postmodernism as a whole – is a reaction to modernist works, and to their tendencies (such ...

  3. 19th century in film - Wikipedia

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    1826 – Nicéphore Niépce takes the oldest known extant photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras. 1833 – Joseph Plateau (Belgium) introduces a scientific demonstration device that creates an optical illusion of movement by mounting drawings on the face of a slotted, spinning disk, later published as the Fantascope (and now better known as the Phenakistoscope).

  4. List of war films and TV specials set between 1775 and 1914

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    War depictions in film and television include documentaries, TV mini-series, and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars, the films included here are films set in the period from 1775 or at the beginning of the Age of Revolution and until various Empires hit roadblock in 1914, after lengthy arms race for several years.

  5. List of historical films set in Near Eastern and Western ...

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    early 19th century: adaptation of Jane Austen's 1811 novel set during the Regency era in Great Britain Sense and Sensibility: 2008: early 19th century: adaptation of Jane Austen's 1811 novel set during the Regency era in Great Britain Pride and Prejudice: 1940: early 19th century: adaptation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel set during the Regency ...

  6. Category:Films set in the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    The Charterhouse of Parma (film) The Cheese Factory in the Hamlet; Chi-hwa-seon; Chiffon's Wedding; A Christmas Carol (1938 film) Chucho el Roto (film) The Church Mouse; El cimarrón (film) Cinderella (2015 American film) City of My Dreams (film) The Clang of the Pick; Cloud Atlas (film) Cobra Verde; The Colleen Bawn (1924 film) Colomba (1933 film)

  7. History of film - Wikipedia

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    In the 19th century, Chaplin made his theatrical debut at the age of eight, in 1897, in a clog dancing troupe, The Eight Lancaster Lads. In the 21st century, Bloom is still enjoying a full and productive career, having appeared in dozens of films and television series produced up to and including 2022.

  8. Classical Hollywood cinema - Wikipedia

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    Since the first narrative films in the mid-late 1890s, filmmakers have sought to capture the power of live theatre on the cinema screen. Most of these filmmakers started as directors on the late 19th-century stage, and likewise, most film actors had roots in vaudeville (e.g. The Marx Brothers [5]) or theatrical melodramas. Visually, early ...

  9. Modern art - Wikipedia

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    Although modern sculpture and architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the 19th century, the beginnings of modern painting can be located earlier. [13] Francisco Goya is considered by many as the Father of Modern Painting without being a Modernist himself, a fact of art history that later painters associated with Modernism as a ...