A History of World Cinema (1934-1936) Course/Class February 9, 2011

David Stratton continues this now celebrated 10-year course on the History of World Cinema with a survey of the films made between 1934 and 1936, a period marked by the consolidation of the major Hollywood studios as the so-called Golden Age took hold. Adaptations of the classics were made alongside grittier genre films of all kinds, and actors such as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Charles Laughton, Katharine Hepburn and Barbara Stanwyck brought class to American cinema, assisted by major directors such as John Ford, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks and others. Elsewhere, the Nazi regime in Germany transformed that countrys film industry, but directors such as Jean Renoir, Max Ophuls and Julien Duvivier elevated French cinema while a new star emerged in Sweden Ingrid Bergman.

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