IFM Test#2 Flashcards
In 1948 what established itself as a rival force to film showings?
Television
The prevailing mood of movies that won Best Picture from 1945 to 1950 was much darker, and tackled serious issues
The lost weekend
The best years of our lives
Gentlemen’s agreement
FILM NOIR
a style of film centered on the dark and pessimistic, with images of black and white contrasted with light and dark, creating deep shadows
Musically
The movies had scores that had minimal musical cues, orchestration for small ensembles, prevalent use of low-pitched instruments/lower strings, harsh dissonant harmonies and the use of jazz and angular disjunct melodies.
was awarded 7 Oscars, including Best Picture and best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture-tells the story of three veterans arriving home after the war. The youngest, Homer Parrish, was played by Harold Russell, a real-life paratrooper who lost both hands in a grenade explosion, which won him Best Supporting Actor, and a special Oscar for bring hope and courage to veterans, and remains the only actor to win 2 Oscars for 1 role in Film.
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The musical score was written by _____, who began his career working for Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, and Alfred Newman.
Hugo Friedhofer
Friedhofer uses what to illuminate differentiating themes in the movie, including the title theme—Best Years, Boone City (where the soldiers are returning home simultaneously), and the love theme-the union of Homer and Wilma; the “Memories” theme, “Home” and “Wilma”–
Leitmotifs
who established himself as the foremost British director of the Silent Film era.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Hitchcock’s films
Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds(1963),
The 1950s saw massive changes in Film what were they?
1) The Film Industry was suffering massive losses due to competition from television;
2)Louis B. Mayer resigned from MGM in 1951
3)several film studios sold lots and movie stars broke away from studio contracts.
what had become household mainstays in the 1950s. in 1950 their was 6 million in America, and by 1960 60 million
Television sets
What was cheaper, and practically saved cinema by brining in younger audiences and revenue through sales of records.
Popular music.
how Jazz changed in the 1950s
as composers sought to use the stylistic music to portray moods of sexual intensity and violence.
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Director: composer:
Director- Elia Kazan
composer- Alex North
Considered to be Hollywood’s greatest Western
High Noon
High Noons Composer
Dimitri Tiomkin
Who sang Tiomkin’s ballad “Do not Forsake Me”
Tex Ritter
Leitmotifs in the score represent
Will and Amy, Frank Miller, and Helen
in 1955 this was the first rock tune to hit the top of the Billboard chart, and became the dominant force in music, with performers such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Fats Domino and Little Richard
Bill Haley’s “Rock Around The Clock”
“Rock Around the Clock” appeared in what movie
“The Blackboard Jungle (1955)”
a film that dealt with juvenile delinquency in high school-adults associated rock music with rebellious youth and teenagers quickly gravitated to this new, exciting music.
“The Blackboard Jungle” (1955)
who’s music was featured in Love Me Tender (1956) and Jailhouse Rock (1957) provided illustrious exposure for the new genre,
Elvis Presley
what 3 musicals topped the 1950s list
An American in Paris (1951), Singin’ in the Rain (1952) and Gigi (1958).
who’s music and his symphonic poem An American in Paris was featured in American in Paris?
George Gershwin
It became only the second musical to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.
American in Paris (1951)
In the 1950’s this played a larger role in films, as well as the music that accompanied them.
American Nationalism and Expressionism
who won back to back Oscars for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951) for his effective soundtracks to these dark films.
Frank Waxman
What movie specifically deals with mob influence and crime on the Longshoremen’s Union, focusing on the heroic motives of Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to confront corruption, as he testifies against the mob before a Senate hearing
Elia Kazan’s On The Waterfront
The score for On the Waterfront was brilliantly orchestrated by who was equally successful as a composer, concert pianist and conductor.
Leonard Bernstein
a phenomenon started in 1956 that saw the birth of three epics-Around the World in 80 Days, War and Peace, and The Ten Commandments
Blockbuster Film
In the late 1950s, two great films were produced by the master Alfred Hitchcock
VERTIGO (1958) and NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
The religious epic was a genre that was as timely as it was novel. It also grossed over 40 million dollars, and the most garnered since Gone With The Wind.
Cecil B DeMille’s remake of The Ten Commandments
Why did Elmer Bernstein replace young?
Elmer Bernstein replaced him when Young became ill.
Who did Elmer Bernstein replace Young with?
DeMille who had strict instructions to Bernstein as to what he wanted as a director to be acceptable music for the film.
what won 11 academy awards, including Best Picture and Best Scoring of a Dramatic picture, and had surpassed the record of 10 Oscars of Gone With The Wind
Ben Hur(1959)
a Hungarian musicologist who had scored the films Quo Vadis (1951) and Julius Caesar (1953), and Ben Hur(1959)
Miklos Rósza
Ben Hur features many what? that typified the music of the early Christian church.
modal scales, parallel harmonies and a lack of harmonic progressions
Rosza’s familiarity with what? helped him to become acquainted with Roman, Hebrew and early Christian music
Western
The 1960s contained many cultural upheavals what where they?
the threat of Nuclear War and the apex of the Cold war, civil rights, sexual liberation, assassinations, the Vietnam War, and the Moon landing
The gulf between what and what widened even further
“serious arts” and the “popular arts”
Meanwhile, in Hollywood, the studios were being taken over by what? and what was being sold?
____ that regulated the “morality” of pictures, was also abandoned (thank GOD)
the Hays Code
Additionally-once movies were able to be shown on TV’s this term was coined.
“movie classics”
PSYCHO The soundtrack, written by Who?
Bernard Hermann,
Psycho is written for what kind of instrument and eliminates the colors that would have added to it by leaving out winds and percussion
string orchestra
effects of the strings is extremely reminiscent of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring masterpiece, with hard accents and pizzicato effects
The percussive
Hermann also favors writing the strings in what?
tonal clusters, or minor seconds and major sevenths
