final .2 Flashcards
Japanese films set before 1868
Jidai-geki
Japanese films set after 1868
Gendai-geki
The 2nd largest film industry in the world in the 1950’s
India
Masala style
Melodramatic plot
Song and Dance Numbers
Action sequences
Happy endings
What is Art Cinema?
Film seen as a work of art Seen as a modernist work features an alienated protagonist loose narrative form marketed as a distinct stylistic and cultural alternative to hollywood entertainment
Examples of Art Cinema film
The Seventh Seal
8 1/2
Throne of Blood
Mon Oncle
Brecht
wanted film and theatre to not be escapist but instead to be political and so used alienation effects (usually dubbed Brechtian)
brechtian techniques
breaks the 4th wall accentuated act changes musical numbers used in odd ways collage construction non linear narrative structure minimalist style
example of a brechtian or self reflexive film
Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard
example of abstract expressionism
monotone symphony
art which looks at everyday objects and tries to find the art in them
pop art
self-reflexive filmmaking
filmmakers influenced by neo-realism
new wave
spring 1968
prague spring
political modernism
leftist films with a highly didactic tone meant to promote social and political change
production code abandoned in
1966
name for chinese communist cinema
socialist or revolutionary realism
third cinema
propaganda films. cinema used as a weapon
example of a third cinema film
memories of underdevelopment
the great proletarian cultural revolution
mao’s attempt to flip society
example of a chinese third cinema film
the red detachment of women
late cold war films morally
simplistic
post cold war films morally
gray
1946
box office record in USA
the paramount decision
end of block booking, companies no longer held an ogliopoly
result of the paramount decision
companies had to focus on producing less movies but those movies were more expensive
roadshowing
plays in only one theater per market and only 1-3 screenings each day
films that cash in on topical or sensational subjects
exploitation films
studio most famous for post-war musicals
MGM
protectionist measures postwar
quotas of time for american cinema, levying charges, government financial coverage,
postwar modernism
true to life
the abnormally long shot
authorial commentary
neorealism
shot on location
non actors
edited like hollywood films
popular post war british production company
ealing studios
