Book Title: History of Film
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Book Description: This book is designed mainly for History of Film, a course in the Film and Media Studies Program, University of Texas at San Antonio. The rationale for developing this book is two-fold: to offer a free textbook in the course and to expand the limits of the topics studied under the history of film, including information about emerging film aesthetics and the burgeoning film industries in the Global South. Overall, this book offers students an opportunity to compare and study the film traditions of the past.
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Book Description
This book is designed mainly for History of Film, a course in the Film and Media Studies Program, University of Texas at San Antonio. The rationale for developing this book is two-fold: to offer a free textbook in the course and to expand the limits of the topics studied under the history of film, including information about emerging film aesthetics and the burgeoning film industries in the Global South. Overall, this book offers students an opportunity to compare and study the film traditions of the past. Each chapter contains sub-chapters as a means of addressing the complexities of topics and traditions within each heading. More importantly, the chapters and sub-chapters are designed to accompany the course description, course goals, and the learning modules in the course. HUM-2053 is an introductory survey of the history, criticism, and cultural importance of film. This course will focus on the development of film as a medium for cultural production including a comparative analysis between film and other cultural media such as literature, drama, and the visual arts.
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History of Film Copyright © 2025 by Isabella Rutledge and Jude Okpala is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Film history, theory or criticism
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History of Film Copyright © 2025 by Isabella Rutledge and Jude Okpala is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
UTSA Professor Jude Okpala added the original History of Film to UT San Antonio Pressbooks and adapted it to align with scope and sequence of HIS 2053: History of Film. History of Film was made possible through a UTSA Libraries and Museums Adopt-a-Free-Textbook grant.