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47 Cards in this Set
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Subgenre groupings
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- plot patterns
- thematical implications - characteristic film techniques - recognizable iconography |
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Musical types
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- Backstage musical
- Straight musical - Before 1933, all were backstage |
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Backstage musical traits
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- Singers and dancers
- Show within a show |
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Straight musical traits
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- Music incorporated into everyday life
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Busby Berkeley
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Known for his early musical sequences
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Arthur Freed
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Composed "Singin' in the Rain", produced, sang, lyricist
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Structuralism
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Analyzing basic elements to determine what an entity is
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Binary oppositions
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Basic elements are connected but opposed
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Genres: Structuralism
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- standard sets
- same stars/crew - genres not finite - became marketing tool - arose out of studying the myths of society |
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John Ford
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Synonymous with westerns
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Teleological
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moving towards an end (telos)
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Hitchcock
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Thriller
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John Wayne
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Westerns
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Cabaret
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historical/political
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Showboat
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racism
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Grease
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dual-focus musical
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BIG 5
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- MGM
- Warner Bros. - Paramount - RKO - 20th Century |
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Oligopoly
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Small number of companies running a large industry
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Vertical integration
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One company owns all three arms
- Production - Distribution - Exhibition |
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1934 - post-Depression
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Industry Recovery Act - fair competition
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1938
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Gov't brought chargest against Paramount
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1948
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Paramount declared guilty
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Paramount Decision 1948
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- Paramount had to sell all theatres
- Death of the musical - Only owned 15% of theatres |
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Films per year
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300/50-60
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August Strindberg
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- Swedish playwright
- The Stronger - Ms. Why |
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Ingmar Bergman
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Persona
Wild Strawberries |
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Victor Sjestrom
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Cast in Wild Strawberries, fellow Swedish filmmaker
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Persona
Rio Bravo Singin' in the Rain |
Ingmar Bergman
Howard Hawks Stanley Donan/Gene Kelly |
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Alexandre Astrue
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- 1948
- Le Camera-Stylo (camera-pen) - Personal expression, just like other art forms |
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Francois Truffaut
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- 1950s
- Cahiers du Cinema - "A Certain Tendency in the French Cinema" |
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Andre Bazin
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Editor - Cahiers du Cinema
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Hitchcockohawksians
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- Cahiers writers
- obsessed with American genre filmmakers who showed personal style - Hitchcock, Hawks, Ford |
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Cahiers writers
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Auteur critics w/ auteur theory
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Auteur theory
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Director is the true visionary, the author
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Godard
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- Cahiers writer cum filmmaker
- Breathless - film noir/gangsters - developed Marxist theories - interpreted Brecht for cinema |
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Rivette
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- Cahiers writer cum filmmaker
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Chabrol
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- Cahiers writer cum filmmaker
- French Hitchcock - Edges of acceptable psychology |
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Rohmer
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- Cahiers writer cum filmmaker
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Truffaut
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- Cahiers writer cum filmmaker
- Sentimental films - Antoine Doinel - character in a series of films, getting older - The 400 Blows |
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FNW Filmmakers
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Godard
Rivette Chabrol Rohmer Truffaut Agnes Varda Robbe-Grillet |
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Young Men of the Cinema
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- filmic references
- handhelds - small budgets - documentary feel - own, unique style |
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Post-War Film Movements
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Japanese New Wave
Italian Neo-Realism German New Wave (New German Cinema) |
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Fellini, Antonioni, Bergman
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- not part of FNW, but made highly individual films that got shipped with the other waves
- Art Cinema |
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Art Cinema
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- marketed to universities and art houses
- European Art Cinema - loose cause-effect - emphasis on psychology - lots of talk - "slow to act but tell all" - direct address - philosophizing - realism (chaotic, random) |
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Bergman
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- 1947, first screenplay (Crisis or Torment)
- Smiles of a Summer Night - dark, psychological films - Summer with Monica - The Seventh Seal |
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Bergman Trilogy
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- Through a Glass Darkly
- The Silence - Winter Light - all about losing faith |
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Bergman II
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- wild strawberries and cream
- big black spider - knight plays chess with death in TAGD |