Story of Film - An Odyssey, The

Aroview: An invigorating alternate film history from critic Mark Cousins, here adapting his own book into a 15-chapter exploration of cinema from its primitive dawn to its current multimedia form.

Refreshingly, Cousins plots a lucid, highly accessible course through the side streets and back alleys of cinema's still emerging legacy, favouring foreign-language and forgotten films and filmmakers over those typically canonized by American-centric institutions and the mainstream public.

15 episodes across five discs:

1 - 1895-1918: The World Discovers - A New Artform
2 - 1918-1928: The Triumph Of American Film - And The First Of Its Rebels
3 - 1918 - 1932: The Great Rebel Filmmakers - Around The World
4 - The 1930s: The Great American Movie Genres - And The Brilliance Of European Films
5 - 1939 - 1952: The Devastation Of War - And A New Movie Language
6 - 1953 - 1957: The Swollen Story - World Cinema Bursting At The Seams
7 - 1957 - 1964: The Shock Of The New - Modern Filmmaking In Western Europe
8 - 1965 - 1969: New Waves - Sweep Around The World
9 - 1967 - 1979: New American Cinema
10 - 1969 - 1979: Radical Directors In The 70s - Make State Of The Nation Movies
11 - 1970s and Onwards: Innovation In Popular Culture - Around The World
12 - The 1980s: Moviemaking And Protest - Around The World
13 - 1990 - 1998: The Last Days Of Celluloid - Before The Coming Of Digital
14 - The 1990s: The First Days Of Digital - Reality Losing Its Realness In America And Australia
15 - 2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle - And The Future Of Movies

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