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How is Movement in film history defined?

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Themes, stylistic approach, and approximate years

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Define Italian neorealism as a movement:

Approximate years-

Country of origin:

faces of movement?:

Themes

styles:

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Approximate years- 45-52

Country of origin: Italy

faces of movement?: Roselini. de sica. Visconti, zavatini

Similar themes and styles?:
Themes: Unemployment, illiteracy, poverty,

styles:b and w, shot on location, open endings, original scripts , dubbing

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In relation to Italian neorealism who is Zavattini?

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writer of bicycle theif

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In relation to Italisn Neorealism who isVisconti?

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-Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo, was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice.

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In relation to Italisn Neorealism, who is D e Sica?

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Directed Bicycle theif and ( ‘shoe shine’ and ‘amber to be’

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In relation to Italian neorealism who is Rosselini?

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-Roberto Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealism cinema, contributing to the movement films such as the 1945 Roma città aperta.

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What was the Andreotti Law?

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Adreotti’s law is trying to support the Italian film industry. Theaters had to screen Italian films 80 days a year for each imported film and distributor had to pay a fee to the government. They had to submit the ideas of their films or a script to government so neorealist films can’t get loans. The new rules of export license of Italian films allows them to deny certain films an export license.

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What Led to neorealisms demise?

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As Italy recovered and rebuilt their nation, and life got back on course, neorealism as a genre just sort of disapperared

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How do European and other international films of the post ww2 era differ from their American counterparts (Origin Plot modes of production, etc)

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Original senarios-

thematically oriented- world cinema are like essays holly wood follows 5 step plot,

open endings- holly wood always restores staust quo

different in look, films are more polished

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What were the industrial and socio-political issues confronting post ww2 Hollywood?

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Copanies were forced through consent decress into divesture of theratres which led to more films being showed

and there was blacklisting going on which confronted hollywood

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What is Huac?

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House of un-American activities

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What is Blacklisting?

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Putting a person on a government is of surveillance

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What is the Hollywood 10?

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Hollywood employees whio were found to be associated with communist in some way, received 1 to 2 year prison sentences

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What are consent decrees?

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US. V . Paramount et. al. - forced to sell off theatre chains

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What is Cinema Scope?

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screen ratio: 2.35

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What is Academy ratio?

What was Flat ratio?

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  1. 33

1. 85

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What is technicolor?

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Technicolor is the name applied to a series of color motion picture processes- first one, one that won out used in wizard of oz

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What is Eastman color?

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-color process post ww1, made color movies affordable, by 1954 studios been making color movies

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What is Burstyn v. Wilson II Miracolo? What was the outcome?

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supreme court case, marked decline of motion picture censorship

recognized film was artistic freedom entitled to protection under 1st amendment

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Why is Film Noir considered to be more of a style than a genre? what are the themes?

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Because of the stylistics elements within it- tone and mood- all shades of black

Themes- passion for past and present but fear for future, loss, nostalgia . insecurity

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How is Film Noir defined?

What three broad phrases can Film Noir be divided into?

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as a style, hollywood fims in early forties and fifties, tone and mood, crime and corruption

  1. wartime period 41-46 (private eye and lone wolf)
  2. postn war realistic 45-49 (crime in streets, political corruption
  3. Psychotic actions and suicidal impulses 1949-53
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What were the approximate years of the Noir Style?

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41-53 Maltese falcon to touch of evil

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What are some of the recurring conventions found in film noir?

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Black and white, predicated on tonality, Mood- somber

Lit for night

oblique and vertical lines

compositional tension prefered to physical

romantic narration

freudian attachment to water

action

actors and seting given equal lighting emphasis

narrative form- flashbacks

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How did Noir reflect an era (Four conditions in hollyewood in forties which brught film noir) and what were its influences? (

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Influences were german expressionism

  1. War and post war disillusionment- socially conscious, reflected period where urban crime films turned antagonisms toward American society
  2. post war realism- post war mood, audiences wanted a more honest and harsh view of americas
  3. German influence- german expressionism, chiaroscuro lighting
  4. Hard boiled tradition- another stylistic influence, were hard boiled writers
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What were the traditions in Japanese theatre that slowed the development of their cinema?

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Kabuki, Ooyama, Benshii

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What are Kabuki, Ooyama, And Benshi

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Kabuki- style of thetre in Japanese cukture, like opera

Ooyama- Japanese cinema did not learn conventions of editing, defining time and place to charetcres

Benshi- narrator that woulod stand on stage and explain whats happening

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What are the two primary genre forms found in Japanese film?

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Jidai-geki- Period pieces set before 68, sword fighting

Gendai-geki- contemporary films, could be comedies or melodramas

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Constrast the styles of Kurosawa and ozu. Who was mor westernized?

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Kursosawa was more westernized, kurosawa had more of a moving camera- dynamic-

ozu was traditional- compositions, framing and regressive

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What was the structure of Rashumon, and what ideas did it represent?

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Circular with flashacks- reprersented a serarch for truth and honesty

30
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How are genre forms analyzed?

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Origin- where do they come from

definition-inner outter form

and function- what feelings is it eliciting

31
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What is meant by inner and outter forms?

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0It’s inner form- what was the underlying meaning, and it’s outter form- ie mise-en-scene.

32
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What si the defintiin of genre?

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-A particular type of variety of motion picture. Certain category

33
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Wat is the definition of motif?

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-A distinctive feature that influences the theme. reoccurring theme subject idea

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wHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF ICONOGRAPHY

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-A visual symbol telling us what kind of film

35
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What is the definition of theme?

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Underlying remise/ the subject matter being addressed.-

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What’s the cionflict between genre theory and genre history

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37
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Analyze the western shane by origin, definition, and inner and outter forms

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origin- leather stocking tales, visual symbols, wild west, indian captivity tales, news apers, ballads and songs

definition- outter form- costumouing cowboy, setting south desert rustic

inner form- civilization v wilderness, domesticity

38
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Why was the western so popular in the 1940s?

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post ww2 antagonisms??

39
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What genre forms are considered traditionally American?

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Gangster, western, hard boiled detective, screwball comedy

40
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What are the three phases of a generic cycle of development

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pre production

production

post production

41
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What are the recurring themes found in bergmans films?

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Crisis of faith, silence of god, relationships, futility of communication

42
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What 3 forces occur in dr. borgs journey for his degree?

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crisis of faith, failed relationship, futility of communicatiom

43
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Compare Begmans wld strawberries to the road or journey film?

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The road movie as a narrative is one of the oldest to have, usually on this journey you find yourself or find something tha’s lost- in this case dr. borg finds himself to be less crass

44
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How does wild strawberries relate to rashumon and Bicycle theif?

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open endings, original plot, different thematic structure than hollywood. More polished, family institution is there at the end of all films

45
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What is mise-en-scene?

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Focusing on all aspects of the shot, lighting, acting, set, choreography, etc

46
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Whatr is montage?

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Focuses on cuts and how to put those cuts together sucessfully

47
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What are straight cuts?

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Cuts that have no barrier in between, happen at same time

48
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What are dissolves?

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shot dissolves

49
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What are wipes?

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Shots that move to next shot or scene through the emphasis of scene being wiped away like on a windshield wiper- passing of time

50
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What are gfades?

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Fad to black out or in- indicates passing of time

51
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Whats the difference between shot v scxene?

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A shot is a particular element that comprioses a scene, and a scene is made up of varying different shots an, dialogue and emotion to buttress the plot line

52
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What is the importance of hotchcock?

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(Dohetry’s “all hitchcocks children)

53
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What was hitchcoicks link to the auter theory?

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Put a stamp on his work

had a certain style and theme

hitchcoclkian universe

knowledge= danager

vouyerism

birds eye view shot

moving camera

jump cut

54
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What were hitchcocks links to French new wave?

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-the adoring French grew more effusive in praise (in his 1968 book on Hitchcock, the director Francois Truffaut placed him alongside such consummate “artists of anxiety” as Poe, Dostoevsky, and Kafka);

AUTER

55
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What other directors does Dohetry compare Hitchcock to?

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D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, and F.W. Murnau

56
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What familiar stylistics does Dohyetry list in relation to hitchcoks style?

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57
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What are some of H’S recurring themes?

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-hitchcoclkian universe

knowledge= danager

vouyerism

birds eye view shot

moving camera

jump cut

58
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What does Dohetry mean when he says we are all hitchcocks children?

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Hitchcock ncreated styles and themes that have been adapted by directors fter him and the directors after those directors adapted those styles to

59
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What are the conventions of the 1950s melodrama?

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artificiality, expressionistic lighting, everything over the top, focus on family

60
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What was melodramas focus??

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focus was on family, gender, and class

61
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What were the origins of the melodrama?

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approximate years- 1950’s

artificiality, expressionistic lighting, everything over the top, focus on family

director: sirk

62
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What were the elements of Sirk’s style?

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-artificiality, expressionistic lighting, everything over the top, focus on family

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