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Provides an overview of cinema made around the world between 1930 and 1960, highlighting technical, cultural, political, and economic forces that shaped mid-twentieth-century cinema. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards developing a formal, historical, and theoretical appreciation of a variety of commercial and art film traditions. Specific topics may vary by term/year/instructor.nnThis term's topic: This course examines the history of cinema from the early to the mid-20th century, within the landscape of technological innovation, imperialism, and anti-colonial movements. Interrogating the persistent Euro-centric vision in ethnographic cinema and its production of a primitive subject, we situate similar colonial fashioning in Classical Hollywood films of this period. Not only is colonial gaze projected through vision, but also through the arrival of mechanically reproduced sound. Films from the newly independent colonies help us examine the push and pull for representation and autonomy in global and local markets. Towards the end of this period, we see the emergence of a fully formed postcolonial cinema through the Third Cinema movement in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.