Intro to Film 2
Terms
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- 8 1/2 director
- Fellini
- Umberto D director
- Vittorio De Sica
- Bicycle Thief director
- Vittorio De Sica
- 7 Beauties director
- Lina Wertmuller
- Alphaville director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- revisionist films
- new or revised interpretation or representation of a subject
- Example of a revisionist western
- Unforgiven
- Film noir: what years?
- 1941-58
- Lighting in film noir
- low-key
- Characters in film noir
- motivated by selfishness, greed, cruelt, and ambition. Often contains femme fatale character
- Actors in Italian neorealist film
- untrained, nonprofessional
- Settings in Italian neorealism
- unaltered
- Story in Italian neorealism
- chronological
- Lighting in Italian neorealism
- little or no supplemental lighting
- How is Umberto D. Italian neorealist?
-
nonprofessional actor
location filming
chronological story
few closeups
generally unobtrusive filmmaking - When did the Italian neorealist movement begin?
- After WWII and largely died out by 1950s
- French New wave--when?
- late 1950s and early 1960s
- Plot in French New wave
- unpredictable
- Equipment in French New Wave
- handheld cameras and sound equipment, faster film stock, and protable lighting equipment
- Shots in French New Wave
- cutaways, jump cuts, swish pan, lap dissolve
- Consciousness in European Independent Films
- lots of dreams, memories, fantasies, and other mental states represented
- Characters in European Independent Films
- complex--goals are unclear or shifting
- Plotline in in European Independent Films
-
often episodic, more likely to have narration
often about the film medium itself - Dogme 95 Manifesto
- Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg co-write in 1995
- The Vow of Chastity
- A director's agreement to follow the rules in the Dogme 95 manifesto
- Budget in American Independent Cinema
- generally low
- Funding for American Independent Cinema
- Private sources usually, but some corporations are branching out to fund independent films
- Two cooperating organizations of independent filmmakers
-
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF)
Independent Feature Project (IFP) - nonnarrative documentary
- a film or video that uses no narrative or story in its representation of mainly actual (not imaginary) subjects
- narrative documentary
- true narratives: a series of unified factual events in one or more settings
- cinema verite--where and when
- France 1960s
- cinema verite--shooting
- on-location with lightweight equipment
- cinema verite--subjects
- likely to be questioned during filming
- cinema verite--practitioners
- Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Marcel Ophuls
- cinema verite--film example
- The Sorrow and the Pity
- experimental films
- avant-garde, underground, personal, or independent
- experimental films question _________ and defy __________.
- ideologies, convention
- anamorphic lens
- a lens that squeezes a wide image onto a film frame in the camera, making everything look tall and thin. On a projector, an anamorphic lens expands the image, returning it to its original wide shape
- film stock
- unexposed and unprocessed motion-picture film
- Year the production code became more stringently enforced
- 1934
- Homosexuality in production code era movies
- rarely mentioned
- Year the US film industry abandoned the production code and instituted a rating system
- 1968
- Usual representation of gay characters
- Stereotypical, amusing, and nonthreatening to heterosexual audiences--though lately this is improving
- African Americans in silent film
-
played by European Americans, who wore crude makeup
represented as simple-minded and faithful slaves or lazy and corrupt - Low-budget black filmmaker
- Oscar Micheaux
- blaxploitation
- US film movement from 1971 to 1975 or 6 consisting of low-budget movies usually made by African American filmmakers, with black characters for black audiences
- Famous blaxploitation films
- Boyz N the Hood, New Jack City, Shaft
- Early celluloid latinos and Latin Americans
- usually minor roles or negative role models
- Mexicans in westerns
- portrayed as crude, ignorant, lazy, and vicious
- Latinas in film
- Dyed their hair and changed their name to advance their acting careers (Rita Hayworth)
- Committee that held hearings in Hollywood to investigate Communist infiltration of the film industry
- HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities)
- 1951
- HUAC held a second round of hearings--more than 300 Hollywood filmmakers either confessed to past membership in the Communist party or were accused by witnesses
- What happened to filmmakers after HUAC accusations
- many were blacklisted and could not find work in the American film industry
- What filmmakers did to avoid problems with HUAC
-
found other work
moved abroad for film work
worked in tehA merican film industry under assumed names - Subjects of films after HUAC questioning
-
non-controversial topics
some commented indirectly (High Noon) - Forbidden in Iranian films
- criticism of the government, religions, closeups of women, makeup, kissing, handholding, and eye contact between men and women
- Censorship in Vietnam
- Censor is always present during filming
- Censorship in China
-
No sexy or government-criticizing films
No unhappy endings - 1930s
- Americans began to find certain films offensive
- Story problems with production code
- sometimes undermined a story's plausibility or logic
- magic realism
- a style in which occasional wildly improbable or impossible events are included in an otherwise realistic story