week 11: reconceptualizing national cinemas
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is shot primarily in what language?
farsi
What is NOT one of the narrative principles common to European-model art cinemas?
overt political emphasis
The vast majority of totalitarian films produced today come from which country?
north korea
According to the video lecture and reading, what category of international cinema has been the most influential and widely discussed?
European model art cinemas
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night takes place in what fictional city?
bad city
According to the lecture, the movement known as "third cinema" originated in what country?
Argentina
According to the video lecture, what is the oldest and most prestigious film festival for showcasing international art films?
Cannes film festival
European art cinema
*How are transnational art films produced and consumed? -films are being funded by national film boards (different than hollywood): BFI, IFI, etc. -soviet union could make sure stalin didn't look bad -premieres attended by filmmakers, gov officials, (kind of like olympics) -after film festival, films to go film museums, to specifically theaters, and then to home video distribution
categories of international cinema
-European model-art cinema -third cinema -international commercial cinemas -totalitarian cinema regional cinema
How do European art films tell stories differently than hollywood?
-Open ended narration: more open ended, more episodic than Hollywood's three act structure, more likely to end without neat resolutions -opaque characterization: less concerned on why characters do certain things, less concerned with action and more concerned with reaction -authorial vision: what every filmmaker aspires to be: author of their films, wanting to see your fav author, how authors express pov
a girl walks home alone at night
-ana lily amirpour -doesn't fit into any categories -closely approximate with European style (although it was produced in southern california)
Third Cinema (1960s and 70s)
-comes from article written by solanas and getino (dissatisfied with hollywood 1st cinema and european films) -wanted filmmakers to be to show/take action against repressive governments -describing events all over the world -originated in latin america
anti-hollywood cinema
-some films take confrontational view against hollywood films, others don't and just want to branch out -international cinema have a fraction of the resources that hollywood does
international commercial cinemas
1. imitating hollywood: love actually (james bond films), england has survived as hollywoods biggest imitator, australian exploitation films, italy is the tradition of spaghetti films 2. ignoring hollywood: india, hong kong, they know how to speak to audiences/cultures -totalitarian cinema: comes out of totalitarian regimes and castros cuba, stalins russia, north korea (purpose is to provide propaganda) -regional films: limited budgets, produced for artists community
Which country has NOT imitated Hollywood?
Mexico
Quentin Tarantino, Abbas Kiarostami, and Bong Joon-Ho have all won what prize at the Cannes Film Festival?
Palm d'Or
What Hollywood blockbuster did the professor see in an Irish movie theater?
robin hood
