As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women's integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world's greatest filmmakers -- all of them women.
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Air Date: 2020-05-18
"Openings". With examples from 1943 to 2013, from China to Iran, Australia to Finland, we look at how to open a film:...
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"Believability". It's easy to spot, but not so easy to understand. Believability is about simple human stories, the t...
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"Conversation". A basic human interaction -- how to make it cinematic? "Framing". Frames describe and paint the scen...
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"Staging". Scene staging is an element of film form pointing clearly to cinema's origin: theater. "Journey". Movemen...
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"Adult/Child". Most famous movie genres -- war pictures, westerns, etc. -- are about adults, but in this chapter, Jan...
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"POV". Is cinema the art of point of view? Jocelyn Moorhouse, Ida Lupino, Edith Carlmar, Sofia Coppola, Liliana Cavan...
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"Bodies". Bodies in cinema can be enticing, athletic, or brutalized. Jane Fonda narrates this chapter about how some ...
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"Home". Refuge, shelter, or prison? Sharmila Tagore narrates the story of home on-screen in the great films of Edith ...
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"Politics". Another aspect of everyday life. From silent cinema to the twenty-first century, movies from the visually...
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"Melodrama". A genre as popular as comedy, but what are some of the great scenes in melodrama? Sharmila Tagore narrat...
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"Tension". Thrillers, and so much more. We look at gripping scenes in films as diverse as Joel DeMott's documentary D...
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"Reveal". How does Lynne Ramsay do a reveal, in Morvern Callar? How does the great actor-director Kinuyo Tanaka? Or S...
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"Life Inside". Novels are great at describing thoughts, but how do films do so? In this chapter, we see how great dir...
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"Death". The biggest subject in life, the most universal subject -- no wonder that Japan's Kinuyo Tanaka, Canada's Ca...