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1970s and Onwards: Innovation in Popular Culture – Around the World.

• The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) dir. Li Han-hsiang
• A Touch of Zen (1971) dir. King Hu
  • this film was a change from the feminine style of hong kong cinema
• Enter the Dragon (1973) dir. Robert Clouse
  • the stories of lees film came from his life story were he experienced racism
• A Better Tomorrow (1986) dir. John Woo
  • the newest thing about this film was the style which was inspired by many other films and therefore used many different camera movement types
• Iron Monkey (1993) dir. Yuen Woo-ping
  • in this film, the cutting was very fast and was as choreographed as the fights in the film
• The Matrix (1999) dir. Lilly Wachowski & Lana Wachowski
• Once Upon a Time in China (1991) dir. Tsui Hark
• New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) dir. Raymond Lee
• Mughal-e-Azam (1960) dir. K. Asif
  • the director wanted to make this film but couldn’t
• Devi (1960) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Satyajit Ray
• Mausam (1975) dir. Gulzar
  • Gulzar is often thought of as being crucial to Indian cinema
  • this film also was able to show happiness and guilt and pain all in one scene
• Zanjeer (1973) dir. Prakash Mehra
  • this film used zooms and close-ups to show fear and dramatization.
• Sholay (1975) dir. Ramesh Sippy
• The Message: The Story of Islam (1976) (a.k.a. Mohammad, Messenger of God) dir. Moustapha Akkad
• The Making of an Epic: Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) dir. Geoffrey Helman & Christopher Penfold
  • This documentary shows just how hard-working Akkad was and explains how his films always had that quality and passion in them
• The Sparrow (1972) dir. Youssef Chahine
• The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
  • a handheld wide-angle shot is used to catch the rush of fear
• A Guy Named Joe (1943) dir. Victor Fleming
• Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg
  • the film shoots three different men in three-shot
  • the camera is placed close to the water to catch the swell of the sea
• The Making of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1995) dir. Laurent Bouzereau
• Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) dir. Steven Spielberg
• Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg
  • in this film the music and camera often mirror each other as the camera rises so does the music.
• Star Wars (1977) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. George Lucas
• The Hidden Fortress (1958) dir. Akira Kurosawa
• Triumph of the Will (1935) (a.k.a. Triumph des Willens) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Leni Riefenstahl