Early Era
Edwin S. Porter - The Great Train Robbery
Early Era
Charlie Chaplain - City Lights, The Kid, Modern Times
Silent Era
Birth of a Nation - DW Griffith, 1915
Silent Era
Wings, Wellman, 1927
Studio System Era
Frank Capra - It happened one night (1934)
Studio System Era
Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
TV Era
2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick (1968)
TV Era
Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper (1969)
Film School Generation
1975 - Spielberg's - Jaws
Film School Generation
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver (1976)
Independent Era
Malcolm X -- Spike Lee -- 1992
Independent Era
Daughters of the Dust -- Julie Dash--1991
German Expressionism
Metropolis - 1927
Italian Neorealism
The Bicycle Thief (1947)
French New Wave
Weekend (1967)
Japanese Film Movement of the 1950's
Seven Samurai (1954)
Hong Kong Cinema
Hero (2002)
Surrealistic
The Seventh Seal (1956)
Realist theory
The film reproduce the viewer's understanding of reality
Auteurist theory
film is the expression of an author
Psychoanalytical Theory
The film elicits and explores unconscious desires of pleasure
Ideological Theory
The film represents social and political activities
Feminist Theory
Film is a vehicle for understanding the social and political issues that relate to gender
Cognitive Theory
The film put emphasis on the way the viewer interprets the movie