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8 1/2 director
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Fellini
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Umberto D director
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Vittorio De Sica
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Bicycle Thief director
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Vittorio De Sica
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7 Beauties director
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Lina Wertmuller
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Alphaville director
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Jean-Luc Godard
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revisionist films
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new or revised interpretation or representation of a subject
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Example of a revisionist western
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Unforgiven
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Film noir: what years?
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1941-58
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Lighting in film noir
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low-key
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Characters in film noir
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motivated by selfishness, greed, cruelt, and ambition. Often contains femme fatale character
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Actors in Italian neorealist film
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untrained, nonprofessional
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Settings in Italian neorealism
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unaltered
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Story in Italian neorealism
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chronological
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Lighting in Italian neorealism
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little or no supplemental lighting
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How is Umberto D. Italian neorealist?
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nonprofessional actor
location filming chronological story few closeups generally unobtrusive filmmaking |
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When did the Italian neorealist movement begin?
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After WWII and largely died out by 1950s
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French New wave--when?
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late 1950s and early 1960s
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Plot in French New wave
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unpredictable
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Equipment in French New Wave
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handheld cameras and sound equipment, faster film stock, and protable lighting equipment
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Shots in French New Wave
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cutaways, jump cuts, swish pan, lap dissolve
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Consciousness in European Independent Films
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lots of dreams, memories, fantasies, and other mental states represented
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Characters in European Independent Films
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complex--goals are unclear or shifting
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Plotline in in European Independent Films
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often episodic, more likely to have narration
often about the film medium itself |
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Dogme 95 Manifesto
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Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg co-write in 1995
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The Vow of Chastity
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A director's agreement to follow the rules in the Dogme 95 manifesto
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Budget in American Independent Cinema
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generally low
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Funding for American Independent Cinema
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Private sources usually, but some corporations are branching out to fund independent films
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Two cooperating organizations of independent filmmakers
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Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF)
Independent Feature Project (IFP) |
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nonnarrative documentary
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a film or video that uses no narrative or story in its representation of mainly actual (not imaginary) subjects
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narrative documentary
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true narratives: a series of unified factual events in one or more settings
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cinema verite--where and when
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France 1960s
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cinema verite--shooting
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on-location with lightweight equipment
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cinema verite--subjects
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likely to be questioned during filming
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cinema verite--practitioners
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Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Marcel Ophuls
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cinema verite--film example
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The Sorrow and the Pity
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experimental films
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avant-garde, underground, personal, or independent
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experimental films question _________ and defy __________.
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ideologies, convention
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anamorphic lens
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a lens that squeezes a wide image onto a film frame in the camera, making everything look tall and thin. On a projector, an anamorphic lens expands the image, returning it to its original wide shape
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film stock
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unexposed and unprocessed motion-picture film
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Year the production code became more stringently enforced
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1934
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Homosexuality in production code era movies
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rarely mentioned
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Year the US film industry abandoned the production code and instituted a rating system
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1968
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Usual representation of gay characters
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Stereotypical, amusing, and nonthreatening to heterosexual audiences--though lately this is improving
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African Americans in silent film
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played by European Americans, who wore crude makeup
represented as simple-minded and faithful slaves or lazy and corrupt |
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Low-budget black filmmaker
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Oscar Micheaux
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blaxploitation
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US film movement from 1971 to 1975 or 6 consisting of low-budget movies usually made by African American filmmakers, with black characters for black audiences
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Famous blaxploitation films
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Boyz N the Hood, New Jack City, Shaft
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Early celluloid latinos and Latin Americans
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usually minor roles or negative role models
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Mexicans in westerns
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portrayed as crude, ignorant, lazy, and vicious
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Latinas in film
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Dyed their hair and changed their name to advance their acting careers (Rita Hayworth)
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Committee that held hearings in Hollywood to investigate Communist infiltration of the film industry
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HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities)
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1951
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HUAC held a second round of hearings--more than 300 Hollywood filmmakers either confessed to past membership in the Communist party or were accused by witnesses
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What happened to filmmakers after HUAC accusations
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many were blacklisted and could not find work in the American film industry
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What filmmakers did to avoid problems with HUAC
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found other work
moved abroad for film work worked in tehA merican film industry under assumed names |
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Subjects of films after HUAC questioning
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non-controversial topics
some commented indirectly (High Noon) |
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Forbidden in Iranian films
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criticism of the government, religions, closeups of women, makeup, kissing, handholding, and eye contact between men and women
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Censorship in Vietnam
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Censor is always present during filming
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Censorship in China
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No sexy or government-criticizing films
No unhappy endings |
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1930s
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Americans began to find certain films offensive
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Story problems with production code
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sometimes undermined a story's plausibility or logic
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magic realism
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a style in which occasional wildly improbable or impossible events are included in an otherwise realistic story
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