Final 1

Question 1

4 main films from 1960 and what they have in common

Answer 1

L’avventura, Psycho, Breathless, Black Sunday

common: modern cinema, diversity and internationalism, multiple narratives/traditions/themes

Question 2

1960 marked disappearance of the…?

Answer 2

cannon

Question 3

The moment image vs. The time image

Answer 3

the moment image (pre WWII)
-cinema of the agent, action driven, segmented time, cause effect, closure, goal oriented, clear motives
the time image (post WWII)
-character driven, time is subjective, no cause-effect, no clear goals, cinema of the seer, about flow

both theories by Gilles Deleuze

Question 4

Michelangelo Antonioni

Answer 4

director who started as film critic/screenwriter
first film: Gentle de Poe
^neorealist, open ended, weather/landscape, unattached, long shots
did L’avventura

Question 5

Alberto Moravia

Answer 5

auteur who wrote “boredom”
criticizes pre-WWII cinema and welcomes Antonioni
-says old film is not opposite of amusement, just lacks reality and does not convince audiences of legitimacy

Question 6

Alfred Hitchcock

Answer 6

both types of auteur

personal films/independent, shows –> psycho –> shows/commercialized/worked w industry/celebrity/power

Question 7

Mario Bava

Answer 7

auteur that was very prideful, disliked by many but very talented, distinct style
influenced Tim Burton/Tarentino

Question 8

Auteur Theory

Answer 8

2 types:
author of a film, has control and personal aesthetic/expression

filmmaker’s works get revisited by later critics who find style/theme continuities

Question 9

International Genres, change in cinemas

Answer 9

horror films became more violent and sexual, got more popular, took off internationally, new wave for horror

Question 10

Hammer Films

Answer 10

key horror production, started mid 1950s, success due to higher production value, more sex/violence/gore, distribution deal with warner bros, international nature

Question 11

Roots of Italian Popular Cinema (why it’s different than US studio system)

Answer 11

protectionist measures put in place by Italian gov –> taxes on dubbing foreign films/profits for foreign distribution reinvested in italy, tax reimbursements on domestic films –> fragmentally mode of production, not like
US, low budget, international, co-producers

Question 12

French New Wave (influences, what is was)

Answer 12

very successful, short lasted but important movement

influences: theoretical, from film criticism instead of film making,

Question 13

Alexandre Astruc on French New Wave

Answer 13

camera should be a pen, cinema about personal expression, very pro-auteurship, for lovers of cinema, art form

Question 14

Cahiers du Cinema: 3 big names and what they did

Answer 14

Andre Bazen (writer)
Francois Truffaut (the 400 blows, A tendency of French Cinema)
Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless)

movies about movies, criticized old french filmmakers

Question 15

3 main films of French New Wave

Answer 15

1. the 400 blows (artistic yet clear)
2. Hiroshima Mon Amour (historical love story)
3. Breathless (best represents)

Question 16

2 movements within French New Wave

Answer 16

the left bank new wave —– within new wave ——— new wave proper

Question 17

Japanese New Wave (influences, what it was, qualities)

Answer 17

influenced by 
film industry (old tradition, vertically integrated)
cultural context (youth culture, end of censorship, consequences of bomb)

new wave in japan targeted youth and resulted in more status/wealth/success, result of removal of censorship by end of 1950s

qualities: repetition, jump cuts, different stories with different outcomes, less coherent

Question 18

Kaneto Shindo and 2 main films

Answer 18

director at margin of Japanese New Wave, older generation, worked as independent, used same crew, actors, techs

2 main films
Children of Hiroshima (not studio system, small, theme of the bomb)
Onibaba

Question 19

3 important films from Japanese New Wave

Answer 19

Children of Hiroshima (not studio system film, small, bomb theme)
The face of another (identity, the bomb)
Death by hanging (issues of identity, individual guilt)

Question 20

L’avventura and Persona (similarities)

Answer 20

open ended, de-centered narrative, ambiguous, form rather than story, personal, auteur, female psychology, self-reflexivity