marginalized voices in classical cinema Flashcards
who is Dorothy Arzner?
the only female director in classical Hollywood
Arzner dealt with the male dominated environment by…
presenting masculinely
arzner invented the…
boom microphone
some of Arzner’s film have [1] and can be interpreted as [2]
- unconventional female protagonists
- feminist
when was the pre-code era?
before 1934
when it is obvious that a character is queer, they are often…
a villian
name an example of one of the queer filmmakers tolerated by hollywood
- james whale
- george cukor
- dorothy arzner
- noel coward
although hollywood tolerated certain queer filmmakers, they couldn’t…
directly express their perspectives or make movies centered around queer people
in Weimar Germany, censorship was…
relatively relaxed
most queer positive German films were destroyed during…
the Nazi regime
who was Paul Robeson?
a famous Black theater actor/singer
why wasn’t Paul Robeson casted in lead hollywood roles? (2)
- hollywood was concerned that casting a black man in a lead role would be too much of a political move
- robeson was also a left wing activist
robeson ended up leaving america and working in the…
british film industry (wales)
independent filmmaking in this period was defined as:
any movie made outside the major hollywood studios
who was Maya Deren?
independent filmmaker who made short experimental art house films on money she made herself
