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42 Cards in this Set
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Lumiére Brothers
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-REALISM
-composition: diagonal perspective, rarely shot straight on, photographic -had background in photography -used expensive film stock -natural settings -pioneering -multiple levels of focus -sociological exposé -non-narrative |
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Georges Méliès
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-SPECTACLE
-Trip to the Moon (director) -studio driven -performance; background as a magician (?) -innovative -singular focus -narrative driven- deliberately telling a story -special effects -splicing- primarily trying to entertain with special effects |
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Carmine Gallone
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-Scipione l'Africano (director)
-part of Fascist movement -film as propaganda, for Mussolini |
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Luchino Visconti
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-Opera tradtion (did mise en scéne for operas)
-Le Notti Bianche -Ossessione |
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Abel Gance
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-made 4 1/2 hour "Napoleon" epic
-cinematic impressionist |
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French Avant-Garde
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-The surrealists
-Rene Clair -André Bréton -playing with rhythmic cutting -"Entr'Acte" -non narrative -non linear -visual effects |
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René Clair
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-Sous le Toit de Paris (director)
Entr'acte (director) |
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Giovanni Pastrone
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Cabiria (director)
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Marcel Pagnol
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-plays Marius
-Canned Theatre -theatrical tradition dialects (preserve) |
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Jean Vigo
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-L'Atalante (director)
-anarchist filmmaker |
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Jean Gabin
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-French leading man in Poetic REalist movement
-La Grand Illusion, Le Jour se léve (actor) -Known for his "explosive outbursts" while acting |
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Jean Renoir
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-Cinematic Impressionist
-la grand Illusion (director) |
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Arletty
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-actress in "Le Jour se Léve" (Clara)
-Usually played a "woman of the night" type character |
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Gabriele d'Annunzio
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-Fascist Poet
-Very popular -Wrote all the intertitles of Cabiria and changed some of the characters names such as Hercules to Maciste |
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Marcel Carné
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Le Jour se Lève (director)
-poetic realism |
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Jacque Prévert
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-french surrealist poet
-wrote screenplay for Le Jour se Lève |
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Poetic Realism
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cinematographic expression
-refined in textured facades, gradation of grays, a graceful balance between synthetic and real -deals with the plight of the working class and the murky "fog of existence" of an unknown future -Carné, Julien Duvivier, Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Arletty, Jacques Prevert |
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Italian Neorealism
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-Verismo influence
-focused on suffering -Cesare Zavattini one of main writers -wants to overcome social unawareness (live, suffer, hope) |
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Cesare Zavattini
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-wrote the screenplay for "Bicycle Thieves"
-"the chief theoretician of Neorealism" |
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Vittorio de Sica
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directed "bicycle Thieves"
-Baron Donati in Madame de... |
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Scipio Africanus
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-about 2nd punic war
-backed by Mussolini -hero of 2nd punic war and symbolism of nationalism Italian Nationalism -directed by Carmino Gallone |
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Giulietta Masina
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-wife of Fellini
-actress in la Strada (Gelsomina) |
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
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-financed by continental films
-made "Le Corbeau" -Vichy France |
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Pierre Fresnay
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Dr. Germain in le Corbeau
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Jacques Becker
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Renoir's assistant (assistant director)
-Priest in "A day in the Country" -known for showing the seedy underbelly of Paris |
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Gaston Modot
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-Fred in "under the Roofs of Paris"
-Surveyor in "Grand Illusion" -Carpenter who hired Manda in "Casque d'Or" -tough guy actor |
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Joseph Goebbels
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-financer of continental films
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Cinecittà
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large film studio in Rome
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Vichy France
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focuses on south and pastoral France
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Continental Films
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-Nazi propaganda (backed by fascist movement)
-financed by joseph goebbels |
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Serge Reggiani
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-played Manda in "Casque d'Or"
-famous singer |
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Michel Simon
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-Papa Jules in l'Atalante
-was able to make the transition from silent films to speaking films |
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Anthony Quinn
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-actor in La Strada (Zampano)
-Mexican-American actor |
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Simone Signoret
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-Actress in Casque d'Or
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Erich von Stroheim
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-silent filmmaker
-seen in Sunset Boulevard and Grand Illusion |
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Cinematic Impressionism
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-Abel Gance and "Napoleon"
-nationalistic cinema trying to portray subjectivity through camera angles and faces -don't go for "shock factor" |
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Maciste
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-Brawny character of Cabiria and symbol of cinema
-Mussolini liked to compare himself to the character |
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elements of mise-en-scène
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-setting and props
-lighting -costuming -behavior (staging) of characters |
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plot vs. story
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plot explicity expressed, while story includes plot and viewers inferences
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diegetic
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when the characters can see or hear it (ex. music)
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narrative
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has causally related events in an order
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three-point lighting
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-key light: comes diagonally from the front; illuminates
-backlight: above and behind the figure; highlights -fill light: comes from near the camera, either above or below; shadowing |
