Category:Film Studies--1940s

Film Studies (1940s)

The page: Film Studies--1940s includes (in chronological order) films made in the 1940s, or from 1940 to 1949.

This page was created by Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan (@2022)

Highlights (1940s)

-> (1940) <-

-- Fantasia (Disney) -- Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock) -- The Grapes of Wrath (Ford) -- The Great Dictator (Chaplin) -- The Letter (Wyler) -- The Mark of Zorro (Mamoulian) -- Pinocchio (Disney) -- Pride and Prejudice (Leonard) -- Rebecca (Hitchcock) -- The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch) -- The Thief of Bagdad (Powell) -- see also -- His Girl Friday (Hawks) -- The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)

-> (1941) <-

-- Ball of Fire (Hawks) -- Citizen Kane (Welles) -- The Devil and Daniel Webster (Dieterle) -- Dumbo (Disney) -- How Green Was My Valley (Ford) -- The Maltese Falcon (Huston) -- see also -- The Lady Eve (Sturges) -- Sergeant York (Hawks) -- Sullivan's Travels (Sturges) -- Suspicion (Hitchcock)

-> (1942) <-

-- Bambi (Disney) -- Casablanca (Curtiz) -- I Married a Witch (Clair) -- Mrs. Miniver (Wyler) -- The Pied Piper (Pichel) -- To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch) -- Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz) -- see also -- The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) -- The Pride of the Yankees (Wood)

-> (1943) <-

-- The Children Are Watching Us (De Sica) -- Five Graves to Cairo (Wilder) -- Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch) -- The Human Comedy (Brown) -- Jane Eyre (Stevenson) -- The More the Merrier (Stevens) -- Ossessione (Visconti) -- The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman) -- Phantom of the Opera (Lubin) -- Shadow of Doubt (Hitchcock) -- see also -- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger) -- Mesches of the Afternoon (Deren & Hackenschmied)

-> (1944) <-

-- Arsenic and Old Lace (Capra) -- The Curse of the Cat People (Wise) -- Double Indemnity (Wilder) -- Gaslight (Cukor) -- Going My Way (McCarey) -- Henry V (Olivier) -- Laura (Preminger) -- Lifeboat (Hitchcock) -- Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli) -- National Velvet (Brown) -- The Woman in the Window (Lang) -- see also -- A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger) -- Since You Went Away (Cromwell) -- Wilson (King)

-> (1945) <-

-- Anchors Aweigh (Sidney) -- And Then There Were None (Clair) -- Brief Encounter (Lean) -- Christmas in Connecticut (Godfrey) -- I Know Where I'm Going! (Powell & Pressburger) -- The Lost Weekend (Wilder) -- Mildred Pierce (Curtiz) -- Rome Open City (Rossellini) -- Scarlet Street (Lang) -- Spellbound (Hitchcock) -- see also -- Les enfants du paradis (Carne) -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Kazan)

-> (1946) <-

-- Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) -- The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler) -- Great Expectations (Lean) -- It's a Wonderful Life (Capra) -- A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger) -- Notorious (Hitchcock) -- Paisan (Rossellini) -- Shoeshine (De Sica) -- see also -- The Big Sleep (Hawks) -- Let There Be Light -- The Yearling (Brown)

-> (1947) <-

-- The Bishop's Wife (Koster) -- Gentleman's Agreement (Kazan) -- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Mankiewicz) -- It Happened on 5th Avenue (Del Ruth) -- Miracle on 34th Street (Seaton) -- Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin) -- Out of the Past (Tourneur) -- see also -- Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger) -- The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)

-> (1948) <-

-- Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) -- The Boy with Green Hair (Losey) -- The Fallen Idol (Reed) -- A Foreign Affair (Wilder) -- Fort Apache (Ford) -- Germany Year Zero (Rossellini) -- Hamlet (Olivier) -- Oliver Twist (Lean) -- Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle) -- Rachel and the Stranger (Foster) -- The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger) -- Rope (Hitchcock) -- The Search (Zinnemann) -- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)

-> (1949) <-

-- The Heiress (Wyler) -- I Was a Male War Bride (Hawks) -- Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer) -- Late Spring (Ozu) -- A Letter to Three Wives (Mankiewicz) -- Little Women (LeRoy) -- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford) -- The Third Man (Reed) -- White Heat (Walsh) -- The Window (Tetzlaff) -- see also -- All the King's Men (Rossen)