ZHdK - Film History

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This list is given to Film Students of the Zurich University of the Arts. For the Film-History exam, each student has to prepare one film of their choice for each Sub-Category

(01.03.2019)

1) Beginning of Cinema (1-10) (Every movie of this category has to be seen)

2) Silent Films and Beginning of Sound (11 - 42)

- American Silent Films (11-18)
- European SIlent FIlms (19-30)
- Soviet Films of the Revolution (31-35)
- Beginning of Sound (36-42)

3) Hollywood I - American Genre Cinema / Classic Narration (43-83)

- Western (43-45)
- Biopic (46-49)
- Romance/Melodrama (50-52)
- Crime/Gangster (53-55)
- Film Noir (56-60)
- Comedy (61-65)
- Musical (66-69)
- Horror (70-73)
- Epic (74-76)
- Authors in the Studio System (77-83)

4) European Cinema I - Early Realism in the European Cinema (84-105)

- Social Realism in Germany (84-89)
- Poetic Realism in France (90-97)
- Neorealism in Italy (98-105)

5) European Cinema II - Author Film, New types of Film Narration (106-140)

- Sweden (106-109)
- Italy (110-118)
- France (119-128)
- Great Britain (129-133)
- Federal Republic of Germany (134-140)

6) Hollywood II - Restoration (141-164)

- New Hollywood (141-152)
- High-Concept Film/ Blockbuster Cinema (153-164)

7) The East-European and Soviet Films during the Cold War (165-180)

- USSR (165-168)
- Poland (169-171)
- Czech Republic (172-176)
- DDR (177-180)

8) Cinema in Africa, Asia and Latin America (181-202)

- Africa (181-186)
- Latin America (187-194)
- Asia (195-202)

9) International Documentaries (203-237)

10) Avant-Garde Cinema / Experimental (238-255)

11) Film and Gender (Women's Film / Experimental Feminist Film / Queer FIlm) (256-271)

12) Postmodern Positions in FIlm (272-287)

13) Swiss Films (288-324)

- Fiction (288-305)
- Documentary (306-324)

14) Cinema in the 21st Century (325-393)

- Mainstream (325-339)
- Arthouse (340-363)
- International Documentaries of the 21st Century (364-373
- Swiss Fiction Films of the 21st Century (374-383)
- Swiss Documentaries of the 21st Century (384-393)