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30 Cards in this Set
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Strangers on A Train
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1951
Alfred Hitchcock |
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400 Blows
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1959
Francois Truffaut |
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The Jazz Singer
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1929
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42nd St
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1933
Busbee Berkely |
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Little Miss Broadway
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1938
Irving Cummimgs |
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Singin' In The Rain
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1952
Arthur Freed |
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Sound of Music
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1965
Robert Wise |
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Cabaret
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1972
Bob Fosse |
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Little Shop of Horrors
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1986
Frank Oz |
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The stooges - A Plumbing We Will Go
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1940
Del Lord |
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German-Americans involved in film noir:
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Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder
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antiheroes in film noir
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• Morally ambiguous
• Underside of life • Cops, detectives, politicians |
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film noir storylines:
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• Elliptical
• Twisting • Flashbacks • First person narration • Happy endings rare |
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film noir atmospheres:
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• Oppressive
• Focuses on o Fatalism o Menace o Pessimism o Anxiety o Anything that can go wrong and it probably will |
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film noir protagonists:
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always men
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film noir women:
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• Dutiful
• Reliable • Trustworthy |
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film noir femme fatales
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• Dutiful
• Reliable • Trustworthy |
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Hitchcock films in Britain
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• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
• The Thirty-nine Steps (1935) • The Lady Vanishes (1938) |
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Hitchcock film in US
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• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• Dial M for Murder (1954) • Rear Window (1954) • Vertigo (1958) and several others |
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Strangers on A Train actors:
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Rober Walker
Farley Granger |
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Andre Bazin
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founded Cahiers du Cinema.
Bazin is best noted for auteur theory. |
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auteur theory
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the idea that films represent the personal vision of their directors and that films of a single director should be analyzed for their recurring themes and structures (you will realize that Bazin's notions run through this class).
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Roberto Rossellini
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neo-realist who inspires cahier critics to stop criticizing film and make films.
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new wave
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• Inspired by neo-realism
• American pulp fiction • Individuality of artistic vision • Originality • Conscious striving for greatness • Push the boundaries in new ways |
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new wave from neorealism
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• non-studio
• unpolished • the use of on-site locations • use of amateurs • non-sequential time • camera motion to track a characters consciousness • intense and direct conversation about politics or philosophy • low budget |
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non sequential time
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camera motion designed to track a character's consciousness
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new wave style is oppostie of
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continuity style
how: • disjointed images • attempts to show disunity • odd changes of character • the use of people on the street • and other devices to constantly remind the audience that it was watching a film. |
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themes of new wave
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strongly existential, stressing oddity and absurdity of life.
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stars of 400 Blows
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• Jean-Pierre Léaud (Antoine)
• Patrick Auffay claire maurier (antoine's mother) |
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man who started the Stooges
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Ted Healy
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