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Film 2700: final
Post WWII
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 3
12/08/2009

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Surrealism:
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abstract cinema (Man Ray)
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The Avant Garde
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pushing boundaries of "norm" cinema (surrealism) 1920's
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Man Ray
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American photographer "Return to Reason"
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Georges Franju
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Aesthetic of the horrible "Blood of the Beasts"
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Italian Neo-Realism
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• Originate from white-telephone melodramas
• Reality, Every Day life after war
• The bicycle thief
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French New Wave
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• Influences: Italian Neorealism and CHC
• Cultural Context: new generation of filmmakers
• Right Bank: Godard (Breathless)
• Left Bank: Alan Resnais (Night and Fog)
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Third Cinema
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• Characteristics: revolution, not CHC or EAC
• Key Directors: Solanas, Getino
• Film Examples: Hour of the Furnaces
• LA Rebellion: Third cinema within America (UCLA)
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New Hollywood
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• New generation of American filmmakers
• More violence, sex, and moral ambiguity (artistic)
• "Bonnie and Clyde" - "Jaws"
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Documentary
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• History: Lumiere Brothers "fathers of documentary"
• Key Films: Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty), Shermans March (McElwee)
• Direct Cinema: "Fly on the wall" approach
• Cinéma Vérité: Gimme shelter
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Post-WWII Japanese Cinema
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• SCAP: supreme commander of allied powers (rebuild Japanese society)
• Popular Genres: Shom in- geki (everyday life, melodrama, stylistic calm)
• Key Directors: Yasujirō Ozu
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Indian Cinema
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• Popular Genres: Historicals, mythologicals, devotionals, socials
• Post-War Hindi Formula: Romantic main plot, happy ending, 6 songs and 3 dances
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Mexican Popular Cinema
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• Government Support for the Industry: big support, no taxes
• Popular Genres: comedy ranchera (western), melodrama, pachuco musical (mob musical), and cabereta (brothels, sex)
• Characteristics: cheap, quick, formulaic (shift in 1990's to auteur (maria full of grace))
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American Independent Cinema
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• Characteristics: commitment to stories, financially viable
• Key Films: reservoir dogs,
• Industry Trends: changed to independent because it allowed for maximum net profit.
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Hollywood Blockbuster Cinema
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• Characteristics: large scale, expensive
• Key Films: jaws, star wars
• Industry Trends: staple of American cinema post 80's
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Cahiers Du Cinema
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Start of Right Bank
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White telephone melodrama
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led to Neorealism
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Csare Zavattini
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Italian Neorealism manifesto: no script, no prof
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Amilie
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New New wave
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The learning tree
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(Gordon parks, firs studio film of black guy
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bantierre
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social problems
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