The Rise and Fall of Cinema as an Art Form

► What does cinema mean to you? A simple evening pastime, or an immersion into self-reflection? Let’s break down together how cinema evolved into the most powerful lever of contemporary thought. SUPPORT ME ON: ► For a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/nikitavalko ► Support:   / nikitavalko   0:00 - Cinema: The youngest of the arts 0:05 - What is cinema? 0:50 - intro 0:56 - The birth of cinema 1:34 - The first film screening 3:35 - The first step of cinema into the world of art 5:16 - Hollywood and the Birth of the Film Industry 6:25 - David Griffith 7:27 - German Expressionism 8:20 - Light and Shadow 12:29 - Sergei Eisenstein 13:14 - The Theory of Attractions and Intellectual Montage 13:55 - The Odessa Steps and Rhythmic Montage 14:22 - Rhythm as a Cardiogram 14:46 - The Main Character Is the Mass 15:27 - Vertical, or Audiovisual, Montage 16:48 - Early Film Textbooks and a Worldwide Academic Legacy 17:48 - Louis Delluc 18:58 - He Invented the Term “Photogénie” 20:30 - He Declared War on Theatrical Acting 22:34 - How Sound Came to Cinema - The Great Revolution and the Panic 24:35 - Why Did Everyone Think This Was the End of Cinema? 25:17 - Technical Regression - The Camera in a Cage 26:00 - The Death of a Universal Language 27:05 - The Key Figures Who Saved Cinema from “Deafness” 27:20 - Alfred Hitchcock - Sound as a Psychological Weapon 28:26 - Jean Renoir - Freedom of the Frame and Living Sound 29:47 - Cinema as Propaganda 30:27 - The Soviet Union - Cinema as an Intellectual Hammer 31:54 - Nazi Germany - Cinema as Hypnosis and Religion 34:11 - The United States and Hollywood - “Soft Power” and Patriotism 34:30 - World War II 34:51 - The Cold War 35:31 - The Secret of Propaganda in Cinema 36:02 - Orson Welles- Revolution in Everything and the Birth of Modern Cinema 37:19 - Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave 38:04 - Italian Neorealism - Cinema Without Makeup or Sets 39:14 - The French New Wave - Revolt Against the Rules 40:58 - The Rise of Auteur Cinema 42:42 - Michelangelo Antonioni - The Director of Human Alienation 44:35 - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Rebel, Provocateur, and Poet of the Outskirts 46:48 - Federico Fellini - Cinema as Carnival and Dream 47:57 - Andrei Tarkovsky - Cinema as Prayer and the Sculpture of Time 49:43 - Stanley Kubrick - Absolute Perfectionism and Cinema as Symmetry 51:44 - Ingmar Bergman - Cinema as the Anatomy of the Soul 53:27 - Akira Kurosawa - Cinema as Absolute Movement and Multiple Truths 56:20 - Epilogue - The Fall of the Titans and the Return to the Sideshow 57:29 - Cinema in the Modern World - A View from 2026 FAIR USE DISCLAIMER ► Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act: allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, scholarship, and research. All copyrighted materials used in this video belong to their respective owners and are used here solely for educational and analytical purposes. SOURCES & REFERENCES ► I. Theoretical & Philosophical Literature • Sergei Eisenstein - Film Form: Essays in Film Theory & The Film Sense • Louis Delluc - Photogénie (1920) • Andrei Tarkovsky - Sculpting in Time • Gilles Deleuze - Cinema 1: The Movement-Image & Cinema 2: The Time-Image • Béla Balázs - Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art • André Bazin - What Is Cinema? • Michel Chion - Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen • Laura Mulvey - Visual and Other Pleasures • Robert McKee - Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting ► II. Historical Studies & Genre Analysis • Siegfried Kracauer - From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film • Lotte H. Eisner - The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema • Thomas Elsaesser - Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary • Peter Bondanella - A History of Italian Cinema • David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson - Film History: An Introduction • David Bordwell - Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema • Geoffrey Nowell-Smith - The Oxford History of World Cinema • Georges Sadoul - General History of the Cinema ► III. Archival Photos, Film Stills & Visual Materials • Mosfilm Cinema Concern Archives - Restored Film Stills, Master Prints & Archival Movie Materials • IMDb & IMDbPro Archives - Film Stills, Production Photographs, Vintage Posters & Cast Photos • Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain - Historical Photographs & Cinema Prints • BFI & Cinémathèque Française Archives - Production Stills & Vintage Posters • Library of Congress - Silent Cinema Preservation Collections ► IV. Online Resources & Encyclopedias • Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia - History of Film, German Expressionism & Soviet Montage (wikipedia.org) • Encyclopædia Britannica - History of Motion Pictures & Sound Technology (britannica.com) • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Philosophy of Film & Aesthetics (plato.stanford.edu) #cinema #art