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Feb 19, 2015 · Smith, 39, a filmmaker and film studies instructor, said he was only dimly aware of Chicago’s pivotal role in the history of cinema. A visit in 2010 to the Chicago History Museum, which displays ...
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Dec 19, 2023 · This period also saw the rise of auteur cinema, with directors taking on greater creative control and imprinting their personal styles and visions onto their films. Blockbusters and the Franchise Era The concept of the summer blockbuster was born with the release of films like “Jaws” and “Star Wars” in the 1970s.
Several film production companies were actively making moving pictures in Chicago and the suburbs during this time. William Selig, a former magician and theatrical troupe manager, was making and exhibiting films in Chicago by 1897. In 1907, the Selig Polyscope Company built a production facility at Irving Park Road and Western Avenue that ...
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A surprising piece of history that the average Chicago movie-goer may not know is that before Hollywood, the Chicago film industry was hugely important. Back in the 1900s, it wasn’t easy to make a motion picture short or feature film. To keep independent film makers from using his invention Thomas Edison (who invented nearly everything needed to ma...
So why was Hollywood not in Illinois? It’s commonly thought that the film industry moved to California for the weather. Independent filmmakers went to the west coast because it was more distant from the enforcement of the New Jersey-based MPPC’s licensing rules. However, in 1915 the Motion Picture Patents Company’s monopoly control of film producti...
It wasn’t until the 1980s that the Chicago film industry heated up again. 1. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 2. Blues Brothers 3. Risky Business 4. When Harry Met Sally 5. The Untouchables These movies highlighted Chicago as an excellent movie setting. My guilty pleasure movies set in Chicago are My Best Friend’s Wedding (because I don’t think the White S...
The Film Studies Center serves as the support facility and research center for the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. It provides an ideal site for students and faculty to explore film and other media and plays a vital role in fostering serious interdisciplinary film scholarship. The FSC supports classroom ...
The Loop's dominance, still intact, was by then already diminishing. Sixty-five years later, in 2002, the exodus of movie theaters to the suburbs that began after the Second World War was well advanced, and only 29 remained within the city of Chicago, a mere two in the Loop. Authors: Michael P. Conzen and Christopher P. Thale.
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On leave for the 2023-2024 academic year. Since joining the faculty at Chicago, David Levin has taught courses in German Cinema (e.g., Weimar Cinema; German Cinema 1945-1989; Fassbinder: Melodrama, Politics, and Poetics; The Cinema of Catastrophe), on theories of spectacle; performance theory; and the intersections of cinema, theater, and opera.
