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32 Cards in this Set
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Casablanca
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Curtiz - 1942
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Now Voyager
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Rapper - 1942
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Double Indemnity
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Wilder - 1944
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The Lady from Shanghai
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Welles - 1947
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Rome Open City
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Rossellini - 1945
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Out of the Past
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Tourneur - 1947
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Bicycle Thief
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De Sica - 1948
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Rear Window
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Hitchcock - 1953
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Seven Samurai
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Kurasawa - 1954
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Night and Fog
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Alain Resnais - 1955
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L'Avventura
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Antonioni - 1959
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The Searchers
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Ford - 1956
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Breathless
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Godard - 1960
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
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Godard - 1967
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The Graduate
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Nichols - 1967
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Bonnie and Clyde
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Penn - 1967
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The Wild Bunch
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Peckinpah - 1969
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Explain: The Production Code (PCA)
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- 1930 to 1968
- Father Ward (priest) and Martin Quigley (news editor) wrote pro-censorship code. |
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Explain: Joseph Breen
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- Made head of the PCA in 1934
- Worked diligently to maintain full censorship |
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Explain: The Legion of Decency
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- Catholic organization made to maintain censorship in the media.
- Rated movies as A ("amen"), B ("be wary"), and C ("condemned") |
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Explain: Classical Hollywood
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- Actors were held under contract with studios. Company films more individual, with predictable themes (**House styles**)
- Directors simply made films for the studios. **NO Auteurism** - Studios (who had complete control) forced actors to play similar roles (i.e. Boggart playing "Boggart characters") |
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Explain: Bureau of Motion Picture Affairs (BMPA) and Office of War Information (OWI)
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Urged studios to:
1) remind audiences of what was at stake in WW2, 2) render the evil against whom whe were fighting, and 3) celebrate the history/culture of our allies to show a way of life worth fighting for |
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WHO established the BMPA/OWI and WHY???
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FDR -- to use the film industry to both inform the public and raise morale (all for support)
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ID: Paramount Decision (1948)
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US Justice Dept. saw an oligopoly between six different production companies as well as the theaters in which they were showing their films.
The decision led to regulation and separation of theaters and studios, and since revenue started going down, so did movie number and quality. |
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ID: Black List
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Government attempt to remove communist influence from cinema.
Many workers in Hollywood were ostrocized from film work. |
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ID: Box Office Decline
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The Black List and Paramount Decision were two huge blows to the film world, and when movie quality and quantity took a dive, there were smaller and smaller audiences until the late 1960s.
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ID: Hollywood 10
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Screenwriters called to Congress during the blacklist.
When asked if they had ever had "communist affiliation" they refused to answer. They all were found in "contempt of court" and imprisoned. |
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What two eras in film style happened simultaneously?
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Film Noir & Neorealism
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Explain: Melodrama
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- Films made primarily for women during wartime.
- Private lives inevitably made PUBLIC - Confessions; inevitable but never make them free - **Moral obligations: heroine sticks to behavioral code in order to protect society (as they do in real life while men are away) (Casablanca) |
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Explain: Film Noir
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- Women exist as temptation and a threat.
- Noir is post-war, shows man-woman relationships dissolving due to complications (the army/war was simple for men) - At the end of a Noir film is BETRAYAL (just as blacklisted writers were betrayed by fellow writers) - Strong men bested by stronger women; they are reckless and always make decisions despite warnings |
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Explain: Neorealism
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- Italian movement meant to make film a reality; away from Hollywood-style which seemed only for entertainment
- Use of real locations, people, and light. |
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Auteur signature:
Antonioni |
- Mise en scene
- Drifting ("ennui": aimless boredom) - IMAGE & SOUND |
