History of Cinema: Filmmaking, Film Industry, Film Art

More and more films are released in theaters every year, new names and genres appear. To understand what’s happening in cinema right now, it’s important to know how cinematography began and developed. Film historian and lecturer at the Humanitarian Institute of Film and Television Igor Belenky looks at the main stages of cinema’s formation: how film became art, fought for sound, served as propaganda, survived the turbulent sixties and the wild nineties. This is both a history of cinema and an analysis of the most iconic films, as well as key events in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, the USA, Russia, and Asian countries.