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Who was Man Ray?
- American Photographer
- film collages
- associated with Avant Gard movement in Paris
- Most famous film - "Return to Reason"
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Characteristics of screwball comedy.
Films
- Subgenre of comedy
- Slapstick hummor and witty dialogue
- "It Happened one Night"
- "His Girl Friday"
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What is neorealism?
- A cultural movement that brings elements of true life in the stories it describes, rather than a world mainly existing in imagination only.
- "Bicycle Theives" - Desica
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Who is the father of Italian neorealism? What 3 things did his manifesto include?
- Zavattini
- 1. No professional actors
- 2. No contrapt plots
- 3. No on location shooting
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What are the Japanese genres?
- Jidai-geki: historical films
- Chambara: swordfight movies
- Gendi-geki: contemporary stories
- Shomin-geki: ordinary daily life
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Who was the most well known Japanese director? His notable film?
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What do Japanese films focus on?
- Family crisis
- Explore dramatic issues
- Resignation to life's painful challenges
- Exploration of everyday life
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1st black director
"The Learning Tree"
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Why is "Shaft" important?
First Blacksploitation studio produced film
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What is blacksploitation?
The portrayal of blacks and their stereotypes on the bigscreen
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What is film noir?
- Stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.
- Setting: urban, city
- Motivates characters: greed, ambition
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What is a femme fatal?
- A strong independent woman character
- Protrayed during WWII era movies
- Based on anxiety about women's roles after war
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Characteristics of German Expressionism.
- Against physical realism
- Inter emotional reality
- Mise en scene
- Stylized sets
- Un-natural acting style
- Chiaroscuro lighting - light to dark
- Long shots
- Slowly paced editing
- Framed stories
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What is mise-en-scene?
Everything on the screen that gives meaning
- Ex:
- Clothing
- Make-up
- Lighting
- Setting
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What are Solanos and Gentino known for?
- The third cinema manifesto
- "Towards a Third Cinema"
- Said that: third cinema is a cinema of national or cultural self - deifnition
- "Hour of the Furnace"
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What are characteristics of third cinema?
- Told new stories in a different way
- Outside standard systems of production
- Non- CHC norms (non-linear, collectives instead of individuals)
- Social or political commentary
- Associated with underdeveloped emerging nations but not restricted to 3rd world
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First cinema, Second cinema, Third cinema
- Hollywood
- EAC
- Cinema of national or cultural self-definition
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What is Avant Garde?
- Experimentation
- Creation of new forms
- Manipulation of shapes and colors
- Unique comparisons and combinations
- Not external reality; visual sensation
- Depiction of subconscience
- Fantasy
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What is magical realism?
Reality and fantasy together
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What cinema is magical realism associated with? Give an example of film.
- Latin America cinema
- "Pan's Labyrinth"
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Characteristics of post-war Hindi films.
- Complete spectacle
- Romantic or sentimental main plot
- Comic subplot
- Happy ending
- Average 6 songs; 3 dances per film
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What are characteristics associated with Robert Drew?
- Drew and Associates
- Way of telling dramatic stories
- Crisis structure
- High stakes situations
- Arises viewers emotions
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Sherman's March
- Documentary
- Director focuses on getting truthful responses
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Nanook of the North
- Robert Flaherty
- Docementary on Inuit Family
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George Franju
- Surrealist
- Co-founder of cinemathuque francaise
- Taboo material; social violence
- Theatre of cruelty
- Aesthetic of the horror
- "Blood of the Beasts"
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Characteristics of left bank directors.
- Artists
- Artistic
- Intellectual
- Trained
- Started with documentaries
- Activists
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Characteristics of right bank directors. (cahiers du cinema)
- Conservative
- Money
- Film critics
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Nouvelle Vague
Journal that started French New Wave
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Significance of "The Graduate"
- Hollywood rebirth film
- Dealing with inner-generation sex and romance
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