Film Test 3
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- Subgenre groupings
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- plot patterns
- thematical implications
- characteristic film techniques
- recognizable iconography - Musical types
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- Backstage musical
- Straight musical
- Before 1933, all were backstage - Backstage musical traits
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- Singers and dancers
- Show within a show - Straight musical traits
- - Music incorporated into everyday life
- Busby Berkeley
- Known for his early musical sequences
- Arthur Freed
- Composed "Singin' in the Rain", produced, sang, lyricist
- Structuralism
- Analyzing basic elements to determine what an entity is
- Binary oppositions
- Basic elements are connected but opposed
- Genres: Structuralism
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- standard sets
- same stars/crew
- genres not finite
- became marketing tool
- arose out of studying the myths of society - John Ford
- Synonymous with westerns
- Teleological
- moving towards an end (telos)
- Hitchcock
- Thriller
- John Wayne
- Westerns
- Cabaret
- historical/political
- Showboat
- racism
- Grease
- dual-focus musical
- BIG 5
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- MGM
- Warner Bros.
- Paramount
- RKO
- 20th Century - Oligopoly
- Small number of companies running a large industry
- Vertical integration
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One company owns all three arms
- Production
- Distribution
- Exhibition - 1934 - post-Depression
- Industry Recovery Act - fair competition
- 1938
- Gov't brought chargest against Paramount
- 1948
- Paramount declared guilty
- Paramount Decision 1948
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- Paramount had to sell all theatres
- Death of the musical
- Only owned 15% of theatres - Films per year
- 300/50-60
- August Strindberg
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- Swedish playwright
- The Stronger
- Ms. Why - Ingmar Bergman
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Persona
Wild Strawberries - Victor Sjestrom
- Cast in Wild Strawberries, fellow Swedish filmmaker
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Persona
Rio Bravo
Singin' in the Rain -
Ingmar Bergman
Howard Hawks
Stanley Donan/Gene Kelly - Alexandre Astrue
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- 1948
- Le Camera-Stylo (camera-pen)
- Personal expression, just like other art forms - Francois Truffaut
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- 1950s
- Cahiers du Cinema
- "A Certain Tendency in the French Cinema" - Andre Bazin
- Editor - Cahiers du Cinema
- Hitchcockohawksians
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- Cahiers writers
- obsessed with American genre filmmakers who showed personal style
- Hitchcock, Hawks, Ford - Cahiers writers
- Auteur critics w/ auteur theory
- Auteur theory
- Director is the true visionary, the author
- Godard
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- Cahiers writer cum filmmaker
- Breathless
- film noir/gangsters
- developed Marxist theories
- interpreted Brecht for cinema - Rivette
- - Cahiers writer cum filmmaker
- Chabrol
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- Cahiers writer cum filmmaker
- French Hitchcock
- Edges of acceptable psychology - Rohmer
- - Cahiers writer cum filmmaker
- Truffaut
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- Cahiers writer cum filmmaker
- Sentimental films
- Antoine Doinel - character in a series of films, getting older
- The 400 Blows - FNW Filmmakers
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Godard
Rivette
Chabrol
Rohmer
Truffaut
Agnes Varda
Robbe-Grillet - Young Men of the Cinema
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- filmic references
- handhelds
- small budgets
- documentary feel
- own, unique style - Post-War Film Movements
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Japanese New Wave
Italian Neo-Realism
German New Wave (New German Cinema) - Fellini, Antonioni, Bergman
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- not part of FNW, but made highly individual films that got shipped with the other waves
- Art Cinema - Art Cinema
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- marketed to universities and art houses
- European Art Cinema
- loose cause-effect
- emphasis on psychology
- lots of talk
- "slow to act but tell all"
- direct address
- philosophizing
- realism (chaotic, random) - Bergman
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- 1947, first screenplay (Crisis or Torment)
- Smiles of a Summer Night
- dark, psychological films
- Summer with Monica
- The Seventh Seal - Bergman Trilogy
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- Through a Glass Darkly
- The Silence
- Winter Light
- all about losing faith - Bergman II
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- wild strawberries and cream
- big black spider
- knight plays chess with death in TAGD