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TFM 363
TFM 363 FINAL
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 3
05/10/2011

Additional Film, Theatre & Television Flashcards

 


 

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Term

Who started in the Italian-neo realist movement?

Definition

 

  • Fellini
  • Antonioni
  • Louis Buzñuel
  • Pasolini
  • Bergman

 

Term
Fellini
Definition

("life is like an absurd circus and I am the ringmaster"; key film 8 ½)

 

Term
Antonioni
Definition

Key films

L'avventura

Red desert (noted use of color)

Blow up

Term

Louis Buñuel

 

Definition

(more than his films, note his critical attitude towar church, capitalism & middle-class society. He can be funny, vicious, surreal: His humor and surreal elements are evident in our screenings of 

The Phantom of Liberty

Un Chien Andalou (film with the woman's eye slit)

Belle de jour

Diary of a chambermaid

Term

Pasolini

 

Definition

Poet, author, filmaker, lef-wing political activist

Best-known film: Salo:120 Days of Sodom (professor said don't watch film)

Term
Bergman
Definition

Spiritual themes: Man's relationship with God, "why are we here?"

key films

The Seventh Seal

Wild Strawberries

Term
New German Cinema
Definition

Deal with Germany's Nazi past

Americanization of Germany

R.W. Fassbinder

Werner Herzog

Wim Wenders

Term

R.W. Fassbinder

 

Definition

films about outsiders and social rejects

key film: The Marriage of Maria Braun

Term
Werner Herzog
Definition

extreme personalities in extreme situations

key films: Aguerre: The Wrath of God

Grizzly Man

Fitzccarldo

Term
Wim Wenders
Definition

feeling of home-sickness and being lost

key films

The American Friend

Paris, Texas

Wings of Desire

Term

Japan

Wind from the East: Asian Cinema

What was a benshi?

what was a Japanese "tendency film"?

Definition

best-known Japanese director in the west

brought us historical samurai films and modern stories as well

 

Term

Rashomon

why is it significant?

 

 

 

Definition

International acclaim. Four stories, but not correct one.

Seven Samurai

Ran

Term

Ran

what does Ran say (at least to me) about giving up and the belief you have nothing left to give to the world?

Definition
Term
Ozu
Definition

camera kept the level of the people he photographs-even sitting

traditional Japanese values and aesthetics

film titles often refer to simple daily life: The Taste of Green Tea over Rice, Floating Weeds, Early Spring, Tokyo Story

Term
Oshima
Definition

The Rebel, best-known member of the Japanese New Wave, his films are rebellious, break Japanese social conventions an are intended to shock

best known film: In the Realms of the Senses is about a notorious sexcrime and is often banned for its graphic sex and violence

Term
What is Cine Liberacion?
Definition
Term
Who are the "disappeared ones" protested by old women meeting in the center of city?
Definition
Missing children. Some taken away by militant firms.
Term
Who "disappeared" them and who does that play into the film below?
Definition
Military. Because they are a developmental country and dont have order or laws.
Term
What war was illustrated the weakness and corruption in the political leadership of Argentina?
Definition

Films about the Falkland's War

 

Term

Third World/ Third Cinema

Argentina

 

Definition
key film: The Official Story
Term
what does it say about Truth and subjective point of view?
Definition
Term

Rashomon 

Who tells the truth?

Definition
Term

First Generation 

Neo-Realism

Definition
fellini & antonioni
Term
Second Generation
Definition

pasolini

bergman 

bunuel

Term
Fassbinder
Definition

A suicide waiting to happen

extreme prolific

used melodrama

Term
Japanese most important director?
Definition

Kurosawa

mast of both historical drama and modern story 

Term
Seven Samurai
Definition
inspired by American Westerns it in turn inspired a western: The Magnificant Seven.
Term
Ran
Definition
grand finale to career, made after failed suicide attempt
Term
Anime (not just for kids)  & Miyazaki (japanese walt disney)
Definition

Princess Monoke

Spirited Away

Term
Solana & Getino's Three Types of Film
Definition

First Cinema: Entertainment (Hollywood)

Second Cinema: Personal, artistic films (auterus)

Third Cinema: Films of Political Revolt- Film as a weapon

Term
Be aware of the political rumors regarding his murder
Definition
by a young thug who claimed that the director had made sexual advances toward him
Term
What does Ran say (at least to me) about giving up and the belief you have nothing left to give to the world?
Definition
Kurosawa made it after a failed attempt at suicide.
Term
Francois Truffaut
Definition
o Most popular, successful, accessible (easy to get in to, understand) film maker
o “The 400 Blows”
Term
• Jean Luc Godard
Definition
o Starts thearing apart cinema.
o Breaks a bunch of rules of cinema.
o “Breathless”
o attack cinema
o becomes a radical
o by the end of 60s becomes politically ratical
o critises capitalism, religion, politics, everything.
Term
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• Alain Resanais
Definition
Last Year at Marienbad”
o vague film, seems like a dream, confusing.
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