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Midterm Exam - FRENCH Flashcards

1
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What is the French New Wave?

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the generation of filmmakers who emerged from film theory and criticism

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Techniques

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Long-takes, fragmented, discontinuoius editing, realism, ending unclear, real lighting, live sound, extras are not actors, shooting on location, real people, real experiences, cinematic reflexivity, mise-en-scene, jump cut, long take

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Philosophies

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Experimentation, personal expression, and rejection of traditional filmmaking techniques

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4
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Years

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Late 1950s to early 1960s

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Auteurism

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director is the center of creative meaning in the film, born in FNW, associates film directors with their films and styles, made by Francois Truffaut

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Camera stylo

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camera as the pen, designs the film

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Personal Filmmaking

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Personal expression of the director, writing themselves into the film, medium as personal expression

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Andre Bazin

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Writer of the Cahiers du Cinema

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Cahiers du Cinema date

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1951

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Cahiers du Cinema

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film magazine, groundwork for auteur theory

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Cahier Group Members

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Claude Charol, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Eric Rhomer, Jasques Rivette

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12
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Francois Truffaut

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Attacks French Cinema in 1954 article, later develops auteur theory, apolitical, two stages of filmmaking (early black and white then color)

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Francois Truffaut films

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The 400 Blows (1959), Shoot the Piano Player (1960), and Jules and Jim (1962)

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Ontology of cinema

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the existence and manifestation of cinema in the world, and its relationship to the world; people and their relationships to the world; how is film special?

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The Left Bank

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traditional filmmakers

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The Left Bank Members

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Anges Varada, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais

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Alain Resnais

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Less obsessed with movies, literacy-based filmmaker, interest in modernism and left-wing policies, merging of documentary and fictional aesthetics

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Alain Resnais films

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Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) and Night and Fog

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Direct Sound

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Recorded live, ambiant, sound is all live. Example is The 400 Blows

20
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Reflextivity

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People are reminded they are watching a film

21
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Fourth Wall

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Often, French films would break this forth wall, such as Breathless. People would look directly into the camera, and even start to talk to the audience. Alphaville had a direct narrator that spoke to the audience therefor breaking the fourth wall; Breaks the suspension of disbelief

22
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Direct Address

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Directly comments to the audience. Talk directly to. Happened in French New Wave because people are trying to break the established laws of filmmaking

23
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Direct Address films

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Alphaville & Pierrot le Fou

24
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Existentialism

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Jean-Paul Sarte, existence precedes essence, freedom and responsibility, authenticity

25
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Existence precedes essence

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Nature of the person is more fundamental than the being’s existence

26
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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Existentialism

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Simone de Beauvoir

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Feminist existentialism, Open relationship, The Second Sex (No longer relies on muscular work from men), “One is not born but becomes a woman” (What it means to be a woman is social, not being born with; One becomes a woman through social conditioning and social roles you take upon)

28
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Jump Cut

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a cut where the camera stays in the same place

29
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Jean Luc-Godard

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Usually about miscommunication about men and women

30
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Jean Luc-Godard films

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Contempt (1963), Breathless (1960)

31
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Breathless date

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1960

32
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Breathless director

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Jean Luc-Godard

33
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Pierrot le Fou year

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1969

34
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Pierrot le Fou director

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Jean-Luc Godard

35
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Contempt year

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1963

36
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Contempt director

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Jean-Luc Godard

37
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Contempt female star

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Brigitte Bardot

38
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The 400 Blows year

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1959

39
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The 400 Blows director

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Fançois Truffaut

40
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Agnes Varda

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Makes the first “new wave” film; feminist; both a part in the new wave and working against it

41
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Agnes Varda film

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La Pointe-Court (1954)

42
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Cleo 5 to 7 date

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1961

43
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Cleo 5 to 7 director

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Agnes Varda

44
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Alain Resnais

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Part of the left bank; older, less obsessed with movies; literacy-based filmmaker; interest in modernism and left-wing politics; merging of documentary and fictional aesthetics

45
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Resnais film(s)

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Night and Fog; Hiroshima, Mon Amour

46
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Hiroshima, Mon Amour date

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1959

47
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Hiroshima, Mon Amour director

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Alain Resnais

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