The rules and expectations within film genres are like a language with evolving rules of grammar; its evolution is a give and take between f...

Auteur theory is often associated with the French film review periodical "Cahiers du cinéma" and has carried a major impact on fil...

In "The Art of Fiction," John Gardner talks about the "fictional dream," the movie running in our minds as we read the w...

Primarily in the 1920's, filmmakers such as Dziga Vertov experimented with a theory called kino pravda, or "film truth." Perha...

At its core, a dialectic is simply a conflict. But Soviet filmmakers, especially Sergei Eisenstein, elevated these conflicts to an art form ...