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40 Cards in this Set
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Lumiere
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documentation
realistic limited length candid |
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Melies
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splicing
special effects first narratives cheaper film stock science, exploration, enlightenment, colonization entertainment, spectacle rehearsed movie stars |
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Louis Feuillade
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Director of Les Vampires
Silent film French director |
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Musidora
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Irma Vep
sex symbol |
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Abel Gance
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Napoleon triptic
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French Avant-Garde Surrealists
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"before the guard" is up
visual stimulus rejection of narrative rhythm - rapid cuts, accelerated montage (switching clips quickly), discontinuity, dreams |
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Rene Clair
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Talkies
Narratives Dream-like, surreal Directed Paris Qui Dort, Under the Rooftops of Paris, Entr'Acte |
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Germaine Dulac
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Woman director
Smiling Mme Bodet |
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Marcel Pagnol
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Stage onto films
Marius, Fanny, Cesar |
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Jean Vigo
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Directed L'Atalante (10th greatest film of all time)
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Jean Gabin
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Working class "casquette" actor
small expressions, sudden explosiveness Grand Illusion, Port of Shadows, |
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Jean Renoir
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Vs. Carne
Cinematography - wide and open, natural settings, long shots/takes, improv, realisateur, optimism Talkies Directed A Day in the Country, Grand Illusion, La Bete Humaine |
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Impressionism
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Subjective (inner character life), visual genius (photogenie), analytic and aesthetic, poetic, complex, distorted images
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Arletty
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Beautiful working-class actress
charming but unaspiring In Hotel du Nord |
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Marcel Carne
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Vs. Renoir
closed and claustrophobic, specific sets, closeups, strict to script, metteur en scene, pessimism Directed Port of Shadows, Daybreak, Hotel du Nord |
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Jacques Prevert
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French poet
Wrote screenplays for Carne Surrealist |
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Poetic Realism
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Impressionism
Spark of hope, then it goes downhill Renoir, Vigo, Carne Grand Illusion, La Bete Humaine, Hotel du Nord |
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Italian Neorealism
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Documentaries, objective
poor working class, on location, non-professional actors post-WWII Italy Rome Open City, La Strada Rossellini, de Sica, Zavattini |
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Cesare Zavattini
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Italian Neorealism
screenwriter |
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Vittorio de Sica
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Directed Bicycle Thieves
Actor and director |
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Roberto Rossellini
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Directed Rome Open City
Italian Neorealism film director |
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Federico Fellini
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Directed La Strada (best foreign language film)
Italian Neorealism film director |
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Gaston Modot
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actor in Grand Illusion and Casque d'Or
silent and sound films |
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Giulietta Masina
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Handicapped woman actress in La Strada
Wife of Fellini |
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Directed The Raven
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Pierre Fresnay
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actor in Marius, Fanny & Cesar, Grand Illusion
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Jacques Becker
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Directed Casque d'Or
mise-en-scene |
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Joseph Goebbels
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Leader of Continental Films
close follower of Hitler |
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Benito Mussolini
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Led fascist party
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Cinecitta
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Roman studio complex
Founded by Mussolini Destroyed in Vichy France |
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Vichy France
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South France
After France split by Germans - Hitler owned North (Paris) S France still paid taxes to Hitler "Third Republic" |
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Continental-Films
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in North France - Nazis
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Serge Reggiani
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actor in Casque d'Or
French/Italian singer |
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Michel Simon
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actor in L'Atalante, Port of Shadows
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Anthony Quinn
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Mexican-American actor in La Strada
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Simone Signoret
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woman actress in Casque d'Or
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Max Ophuls
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Directed Earrings of Mme de...
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Erich von Stroheim
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Austrian actor in Grand Illusion, Sunset Boulevard
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Cinematic
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background info to enhance and advance the plot
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Vaudeville
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saloon, freak, burlesque style
dancers, comedians, animals, magicians |
