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Reading 4: Maturing Forms & Advent of Sound (EuroCin 1) Flashcards

1
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M was a ____ film

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German Expressionist

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2
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M setting and resulting pathology

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dark cityscape, unstable environment, paranoid pathology

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3
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M based on

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Real life child killer

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M director

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Fritz Lang

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What is left out of M

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Killing of victim, left to be imagined. IMPLIED

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Police & criminals in M

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Indistinguishable, both want killer dead

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Killer in M

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Beckert

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How is Beckert found

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criminals trap him in extensive network of spies

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How does Beckert respond to being found

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Breaks down uncontrollably and plays victim

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M and sound + ex.

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innovative use of sound (motif whistle phrase becomes more and more ominous)

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Whistle phrase in M

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Originally used to lure & eventually used to find Beckert out, his downfall

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12
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Magazine phrase that inspired M

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“Murderer amoung us” quoted in film

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13
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M killer psycho actor

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Peter Lorne’s portrayal sets film standard

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14
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Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Dir.

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Wiene

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15
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Dr. Caligari’s exhibition

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Somnabolist @ fair

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16
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Romance in Dr. C

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Love triangle

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Mysterious stabbing of town clerk ______

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incites confusion and action in Dr. C

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18
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What does Cesare predict?

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Alan has “til dawn” to live

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19
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Who kills Alan

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Cesare (unknown to viewer)

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20
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Who suspects Dr. C of murder?

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Francis

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21
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Sets of Caligari

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Contorted scenery & Bauhaus sets

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22
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Ambiguous ending of Dr. C

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Ending w/ asylum & inmate… which is the murderer?

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23
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Nosferatu Dir.

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Marnau

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importance of nosferatu

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earliest screen adaptation of dracula

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Romance in nosferatu

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love triangle between count orlok, ellen, and hutter

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26
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Nosferatu b&w?

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Not fully, tints used

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Orlok’s tastes in movie

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primal sexual tastes for ellen (and possibly hutter)

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28
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Hero in noseferatu

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Ellen sacrifices life to save community

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29
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Metropolis Director

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Fritz Lang

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30
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Metropolis had monumental _______

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production/themes addressed

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31
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Genre of Metropolis

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Sci-Fi fantasy

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32
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What were audiences initially critical of in Metropolis?

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socialist/communist aspects

33
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Metropolis & time

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Film too long for US & short cut made little sense

34
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Audience best responded to (Metropolis)

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Shocking visuals

35
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REAL first sound film

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Lights of NY (Not the Jazz Singer)

36
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Why is Jazz Singer not first sound film

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has several spots of silence

37
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Transition to talkies results on careers

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Some flourished some tanked

38
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Who’s set looked like German Expressionist painting

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Dr. Caligari

39
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Nosferatu rights

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Bram Stroker’s wife wouldnt give rights to Dracula

40
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Special fx in Nosferatu (3)

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Fast speed/reversal of shot/negative film

41
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One of the last major silent productions

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Metropolis

42
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Metropolis introduced first image of _____ in cinema

43
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Metropolis is about ______ vs ________

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Elite versus working class

44
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Start of film Noir

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M, Fritz Lang

45
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Metropolis villian

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mad scientist

46
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Birth of psychology goes with birth of _______

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films that deal with serial killers

47
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M utilized

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off-screen sound (i.e. children playing in beginning)

48
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M debates b/w ____ & _____ of killer

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guilt & mental illness

49
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Building blocks that contribute to maturing of narrative form

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Impact of German Expressionism & Advent of sound synch

50
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What was so special about German Expressionism?

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Element of psychology, power of atmosphere created (decor)

51
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Who used 1st person style

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German Expressionists

52
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German expressionist’s emphasis on (Hint: French)

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Mise-en-scene

53
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German Expressionist art reflected

54
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German Expressionist psych. often seeped in

55
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2 German Expressionist roots

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WWI loss & expressionist art

56
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German expressionism opposite of

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Impressionism (outward), expressionism looks inward

57
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Dr. C expresses

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social collapse & confusion of Germany

58
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Why was German expressionism so accepted/popular?

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It deals MOSTLY with human need to understand world around us + dealt with sense of misplacement

59
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Why was German expressionism scarier than Universal monsters?

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What’s INSIDE of us is the scariest thing

60
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German expressionist “LOOK”

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High contrast, eccentric/angled sets, dream-like haziness

61
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German expressionist big hit

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Golem: How he came into the world

62
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Golem about

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Hebrew clay monster

63
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Unsuccessful German Expressionist film, why?

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Vampyr b/c it was unorthodox

64
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Now how is Vampyr seen?

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Horror classic

65
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Beginning talkies were ______, why?

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awkward: dialogue reverted to static stagey convos/presentation due to recording limitations

66
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Global talkies first huge in

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US & India

67
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How did Europe @ first feel about talkies

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suspicious

68
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How did talkies pick up in Japan

69
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Talkies created ______ & ________

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New jobs and new mechanisms on set

70
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Major consequence of advent of sound

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Industry wide panic, movie czars resising. MASSIVE $$$

71
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Who survived transition to talkies?

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Those who didn’t resist it

72
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Early talky technical issue

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STATIC & capturing sound

73
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3 major struggles to get to SOUND film

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sound synch, amplification, and recording fidelity

74
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Combo of inventions to make new one

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Kinetoscope+Zoopractiscope= Kinetophone

75
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What happened to Kinetophone?

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Failure due to projections

76
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What did Jazz Singer do?

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Commercially begin sound era

77
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Western’s first sound film device

78
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Issue w/ recording fidelity

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poor sound unless subjects directly in front of camera

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