Nick Coe BA Film & Video What value is there for you in the study of the cinema of the past? Cinema as an art form has stood the test of time for over one hundred years, since the Lumiere Brothers exhibited a series of moving images to the public in 1895. What started off as a documentary-tablea...

Cinematography is the art of filmmaking. It is a technical practice, which has evolved into an aesthetic expression that portrays customs or tendencies of society. (Mauer, Mornik, n.d.) Cinematography is the heart and backbone of cinema. Without the scientific advancements made early on motion ...

Considering Kane Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) is a Classic Hollywood film that ultimately defies the conventions of Classic Hollywood cinema (1917-1960, but at a peak from the mid 1930's to the end of the war), and it is for this very reason that the film continues to be valued so highly and di...