Film form -early cinema
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The document provides an overview of the film production process including pre-production, production, and post-production. It discusses key concepts in film history such as early cinema pioneers, German Expressionism, Soviet Montage, forms of cinematic meaning, and theorists like Eisenstein, Bazin, and Benjamin. Benjamin's essay on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction addresses how film differs from other art forms in its reproducibility and mass consumption.
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