What is cinema

Deviprasad Goenka Management college of Media Studies
http://www.dgmcms.org.in/
Subject: Understanding cinema
Lesson 1: What is cinema and Film as an art

Faculty Name: Amol Jadhav

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Lesson 1
What is film and Film as an art
Subject:
Understanding
Cinema
Faculty Name:
Amol Jadhav
Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies (dgmcms.org.in)
India’s premier M-school

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An audio- visual imagery that is produced by series of pictures,
set in motion, which depicts an idea or theme.
This theme or idea which might be based on real events,
opinionated views or fictional take.
Film, brings about an experience, just like other art forms, that
has an effect which changes, subverts or adds to our
understanding of world.
Imagination and reality
Fantasy and Facts

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The word Cinema is derived as a shortened form of
cinematograph (an instrument) or cinematography (an art of
visualization through camera that captures moving images)
Early filmmaking owes a lot to photography techniques
developed by Louis Daguerre (1787- 1851) and Joseph Niepce
(1765- 1833) in France.
Edward Muybridge, an English photographer captured a horse
in motion in 1879 which can be marked as one of the earliest
attempts of motion pictures in the world.

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World’s first movie was made by Louis
and Augustus Lumiere in France and it
was screened at Café La Grande, Paris
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December 1892.
Lumiere brothers captured the events which occurred around
and projected the reality on screen.
They developed an equipment which was built on the principles
of still photography but could capture moving images. It was
called Cinematograph.
Arrival of train in a station, a naughty boy with a gardener and
workers coming out of a factory are some of the noted works and
earlier movies made by Lumiere Bros.

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Cinematograph by Lumiere Brothers was a wooden box
that had a feed in and feed out for
a film and a fixed lens.
It had a built in light bulb that gave an
illumination on lens.
As the grid was moved, the film rolled.
Thus giving us an experience of
Moving image which were shot
and stored on that film and edited in
order to have a definite sequence.

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Classification of ‘Art’
Art vs. Technology
Recording art
Performing art
Fine art
Communicative art
Narration

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“art as one of the ‘keywords’— one that must be understood in
order to comprehend the interrelationships between culture
and society.”
- Raymond Williams
(Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society)

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Sources:
How to read a film- James Monaco
Oxford History of World Cinema- Ed. Geoffery Nowel- Smith
Raymond Williams

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Sources:
How to read a film- James Monaco
Oxford History of World Cinema- Ed. Geoffery Nowel- Smith
Raymond Williams