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film noir style
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dark, low key lighting, urban setting w/ sophisticated killers
back of card |
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| key directors of film noir |
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| Fritz Lang (M); Orson Welles (Touch of Evil) |
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| a crime is plotted or committed within an intimate relatioship |
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| relationships are free of sex because? |
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| film noir minor characters |
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-eccentric, disloyal
-no pay off for characters |
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| film noir major charaters |
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-femme fatale
-Private detective |
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| a narcissistic self-centered woman (usually blond) who drives the action (based on the premise that women are smarter than men and manipulate them). |
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| a loner with his own code of ethics: justice system either ineffectual or corrupt, must turn to other types of justice (in German Expressionism it was vigilante groups. In pre-war Germany, justice system was corrupt.). |
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1. Images with bars (people trapped in physical, emotional and mental mazes).
2. Mirrors & reflections: Freudian concept of doppelganger—darkness vs light: two sides of the same coin (we all have an “other self” we fight).
3. Dark wet urban streets & settings at night. |
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| 1958-62; critics who became filmmakers |
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| french new wave major films |
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"breathless" - Jean Luc Godard
THE 400 BLOWS: dir. FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT |
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| introduced jump cut editing; "reality at 24 fps" |
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| introduced "freeze frame" ending |
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| other major french new wave |
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| Hiroshima, Mon Amour: D. Alain Resnais |
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| influences of french new wave |
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| neo realism and american gangster films |
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| french new wave similar to neo-realism |
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| shot on location but urban; rebelled against white telephone french studio films |
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| french new wave unlike neo-realism |
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| focused on relationships, not politics. directed toward urban parisiens, a young, hip, sophisticated audience |
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| French new wave influence on US |
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| perfect style for urban US filmmakers who were apolitical but concerned with relationships |
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| "David & Lisa" - D Frank Perry |
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| French new wave characteristics |
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Personal relationships set against a contemporary urban background (location filming) with
unresolved endings.
-use of stars
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-no politics |
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| American Independent Movement |
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| BLEND OF NEO-REALISM & NEW WAVE 1959-1969 |
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| American Indie characteristics |
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| personal relationships set against social issues |
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-light weight handheld camera
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| one star (not major) and unknowns |
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| american indie first major films |
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| "shadows": john cassavettes 1959 (interracial relationships) |
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