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Rise of the FRENCH New Wave
(German) Occupation and post-war cinema.
Influence of 1950s, documentary movement, and independent production.
Issue of Authorship/le Camera Style.
Aesthetics and economic incentive of the New wave.
Coined the term 'New Wave'.
Movie: Breathless (Jean-luc Goddard, 1960s)
Rise of JAPANESE New Wave
Decline of Studio Systems.
Rise of Independent production.
Branching away from traditional genres such as Gendai and Jidai geki.
Bankruptcy of studios.
Third postwar generation (60-70s)
Movies: Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
Rise of HONG KONG New Wave
Filmmakers being audacious with their filmmaking.
Revisited expiration of popular genres ie. Thriller, martial arts, crime and gangster films.
Movies: In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
First Cinema
Hollywood; Filled with corrupting bourgeois, ideological assumptions
Second Cinema
Author's Cinema; the cinema of the French new wave and the Brazilian Cinema novo. Still within the realm of perfect cinema
Third Cinema
Revolutionary Cinema; breaks from all constuining of first and second cinema. Does not passively illustrate but attempts to intervene. Deals with the process which leads to the problem it depicts; a cinema which investigates the ways of organizing and aiming for change. It is used as a weapon where narrative comes second.
Rise of THIRD CINEMA
1960 third world cinema emerges
3rd world euphoria attributed to three main circumstances
1. Varying degree of economic/industrial expansion
2. Successful resistance movements of anti-colonial struggle in many countries
3. Decolonization movements (Many Africa) independence from France and Britain
Fundamentals of 3rd Cinema
1. Beliefs in the political functions of cinema on both national and on a international level.
2. Revolutionary both in terms of form and content
3. Rejection of the conventional narrative syntax of Hollywood of any other western film industry
Influence of 'Citizen Kane'
German expressionism (1980)
Kammerspielfilm
Deep focus of Renoir
Baroque mise-en-scene of Josef Von Sternberg (Sets were very over the top)
Rise of NEO-REALISM
Mussolini came in power (1922) - He understood the potential of cinema and used cinema for propaganda. Putting it in the service of the state.
Umberto Barbaro (1943) - To refer to what was lacking in the reactionary conventions of Italian film.
Cesare Zavattini (1942) - Called it 'Neo-realism' - caled for a new kind of Italian Cinema which would abolish contrived plots, professional actors and to take the streets of Italy for Material.
Experimental narrative structure of Kane
Complex flashbacks structure, eg. News on the March and the Points of view.
Begins with the death of the subject, which is Kane.
(This also becomes quite popular with Noir films like Sunset BLVD)
Stylistic Principals of Neo-Realism
Rejection of Spectacle,
Observation of day to day activities of subject
On location sets, use of ordinary people, use of non-synch sound.
Impact of Neo realism
Completely revised Italian cinema.
The first post war cinema to liberate filmmaking form the artificial confines of the studio.
Film Noir
Post war Cinema that was inspired by Neo realism. Film Noir depended on both on location shoots and sets of the studio.
The dominant view was to express paranoia, claustrophobia, the feeling of being helpless and doomed, predetermined by the past, without a clear moral or personal identity.
Anti-traditional cinematography.
Femme Fetale (FF)
Unlike 'normal' women portrayed in the movies where women are often played as women, sister, mistresses and so on, FF is not part of the background but central to the intrigue or the problem.
Defined by her sexuality.
Often, sexual, dangerous, sexual, powerful and often corrupt (e.g. Norma Desmond).
Influence on Noir
German Expressionism
American Gangster films
Citizen Kane, Documentary and cinematic realism
1940s popularization of Freud
Vertical integration
Production, Distribution and exhibition.
Paramount, MGM, RKO
Big three Little Five
Big Three: Paramount, MGM, RKO

Little Five: Universal, FOX, Warner Brothers, United Artists, Columbia
Impressionism
an Art form, A form of expression conveying a personal vision.
Art does not yield truth; instead it creates an experience ; and that experience leads to emotions for the viewer
Creates feeling by evoking them or suggesting them