# Exploding the Film Canon

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Ian Christie FBA
- Year: 2021
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/film-canon)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

For nearly seventy years, what might be called ‘the canon’ of greatest films has been arbitrated by an international poll of critics delivering a ‘ten best’ list every decade, published in the BFI’s Sight & Sound.

## Lectures

1. [What Makes a Film Classic?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-film-canon/f9e6f9ddb11f) (YouTube)
2. [Far From Hollywood: New Kinds of Classic Film](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-film-canon/637a2a2bca05) (YouTube)
3. [Could Streaming Change the ‘Classic Film’ Canon?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-film-canon/c7833a5fbe87) (YouTube)