Is named cinema or cinematography technology that reproduces frames quickly and successively creating the so-called "illusion of movement", that is, the visual perception that moving images are seen. The building or room where the films are screened is also called cinema.
The term has the same Greek root as other words such as kinetics, kinesiology, and others that relate to the movement.
In 1995 the cinema turned one hundred years, after on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screened the first film that reproduced the departure of the workers from a French factory in Lyon. Since then, cinema has gone through different periods, from the silent stage to the beginning of talkies, from non-narrative cinema to genre cinema and so on. This evolution recognizes certain specific milestones that have represented true historical changes; Undoubtedly, the first of them consisted in the incorporation of sound, especially human voices and music, without forgetting the sound effects. The second highly relevant impact consisted of the possibility of incorporating color and abandoning the traditional style of black and white projections. Finally, the appearance of digital technologies has been the third hit in the history of cinema, which has allowed the generation of surprising images in the context of a notable change in costs.
Today the cinema has developed a vast theory that links it with other arts such as literature, painting and photography. Thus, it is considered the seventh art". Likewise, the scope of cinema has superlatively exceeded its purely artistic purpose, and is actually both a tool for the dissemination of science or culture and an industry that generates innumerable sources of work. Indeed, filmmaking requires a technical team made up of a unit of production, direction, script, photography, editing, art direction and many others. This reality is reflected in the feverish and recognized activity of Hollywood in the United States, as well as in nations whose international production is less well known, but which generate a large annual production of films, as occurs in India, Hong Kong or Nigeria, among others. examples.
In turn, the cinema since its inception has recognized various authors such as John Ford, Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and others. On the other hand, different modalities are included in the analysis of cinematography such as animation, documentary, pornographic cinema, among others, and even genres such as cinema of western, action, romantic, science fiction, police, and so on. Many actors and actresses have transcended the world of cinema to become true icons of their historical moment; in turn, many celebrities from other fields of human activity have found their definitive place in the cinema, as has happened with experts in martial arts and in other completely different disciplines.
From the progress of cinema, film criticism has also developed, a literary practice that seeks to analyze and value the films. Many magazines and graphic publications and on-line They are dedicated to the viewing of films for their evaluation from the cinematographic theory. In this sense, it is interesting to note that the wide dissemination of films or works of cinema on the Internet made large studios fear for the continuity of this activity on an industrial scale. However, the seventh art is in a moment of splendor, since, far from forcing its annihilation, digital media have become diffusers and multipliers of this activity, expanding the number of moviegoers and thus causing a real explosion of this activity. contemporary art that defines modern man.
