Film Quiz 2

youthpic

-film genre targeting teenagers and young adults -usually tackled coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst, and alienation. - counterculture

cultural revolution

1966-1976 Stagnation of film under Cultural Revolution; film policy requires ideological simplicity, propaganda a sociopolitical movement that took place in China from 1966 until 1976. Set into motion by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China, its stated goal was to preserve 'true' Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology within the Party. The Revolution marked the return of Mao Zedong to a position of power after the Great Leap Forward. The movement paralyzed China politically and negatively affected the country's economy and society to a significant degree. aunched in May 1966, after Mao alleged that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government and society at large, aiming to restore capitalism. To eliminate his rivals within the Communist Party of China, Mao insisted that these "revisionists" be removed through violent class struggle. China's youth responded to Mao's appeal by forming Red Guard groups around the country. The movement spread into the military, urban workers, and the Communist Party leadership itself. It resulted in widespread factional struggles in all walks of life. In the top leadership, it led to a mass purge of senior officials. During the same period Mao's personality cult grew to immense proportions.

death of mao

1976 Mao officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, but its active phase lasted until the death of the military leader Lin Biao in 1971. After Mao's death and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976, reformers led by Deng Xiaoping gradually began to dismantle the Maoist policies associated with the Cultural Revolution.

tiananmen square incident

1989 student-led demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. More broadly, it refers to the popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests during that period, sometimes referred to as the '89 Democracy Movement. The protests were forcibly suppressed after the government declared martial law. In what became widely known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, troops with assault rifles and tanks killed at least several hundred demonstrators trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square.

hindi film

2 types of film—commercial, "All-India" Hindi film versus Parallel Cinema (represented by Satyajit Ray) characterized by lengthy films with melodramatic plots and flamboyant musical numbers. Indian cinema somewhat unique as a non- Western national cinema with a strongly popular export market (versus film festival circuit for art film distribution)

chernobyl

A town near Kiev in Ukraine where, in April 1986, an accident at a nuclear power station resulted in a serious escape of radioactive material.

dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge

Aditya Chopra bollywood raj and simran

franchising

Arrangement where one party (the franchiser) grants another party (the franchisee) the right to use its trademark or trade-name as well as certain business systems and processes, to produce and market a good or service according to certain specifications.

oberhausen manifesto

Declaration by a group of 26 young German filmmakers at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia on 28 February 1962. The manifesto was a call to arms to establish a "new German feature film". forerunners of the New German Cinema that began later in the decade

NRIs

Film market expands overseas following "NRI" (non-resident Indian) • populations living abroad: 1/3 of revenues derive from overseas exports Globalization, NRI experience and sense of Indian national identity • become themes of films

5th generation

First post-Mao class of filmmakers graduating • from revived Beijing Film Academy in 1982 Interest in overcoming simplicity of ideological • socialist realist film • Turn to everyday people and the countryside, integrating ethnographic depictions, history and nation, pictorial design, landscape and color

hong kong new wave

Foreign-educated filmmakers return to Hong Kong in 1980s, transition from television to cinema • Hong Kong anticipates 1997 handover from • British to Chinese administration • Hong Kong in search of local cultural identity through film; films try to capture local sense of place, neither British nor Chinese

Bertolt Brecht

German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production

golden harvest

Golden harvest breaks away from Shaws, cultivates Bruce Lee in early 1970s Greater realism of fights, bravura display of martial arts, • long takes and long shots show off skill Treats recent history of colonialism: Lee as angry rebel avenging injustices; becomes international icon of resistance to "the Man," pop cultural counterpart to symbolism of Third World revolutionary struggles in political modernism Makes Hong Kong cinema a global commodity

blockbuster

Hollywood movie that's made with a large budget and big stars. A true blockbuster is extremely popular and brings in a lot of money.

Shah Rukh Khan

Indian film actor, producer and television personality. Referred to in the media as the "Baadshah of Bollywood", "King of Bollywood"

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like Zanjeer and Deewaar, and was dubbed India's first "angry young man" for his on-screen roles in Bollywood.

chronicle of anna magdalena bach

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

unknown pleasures

Jia Zhangke

cinema du look

Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Beineix and Leos Carax as directors of "le look".These directors were said to favor style over substance, spectacle over narrative.It referred to films that had a slick, gorgeous visual style and a focus on young, alienated characters who were said to represent the marginalized youth of François Mitterrand's France

dil se

Mani Ratnam bollywood film

east west germany

On June 23, 1948, the western powers introduced a new form of currency into the western zones, which caused the Soviet Union to impose the Berlin Blockade one day later. After Germany was divided into two parts, East Germany built the Berlin Wall to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the west. Communism in East Germany After its unconditional surrender, Germany was divided into four zones of Allied military occupation: American, French, British, and Soviet. The old capital of Berlin was also divided into four zones, but Berlin itself remained inside of the Soviet zone.

xala

Ousmane Sembène

panning and zooming

Panning refers to horizontal movement of the lens where tilting describes vertical movement. The process of zooming refers to the adjustment of the focal length of the lens to make a subject appear close-up or far away depending on the setting.

sholay

Ramesh Sippy

enter the dragon

Robert Clouse bruce lee is a martial arts expert in the film

shaw bros.

Studio system in place by 1950s: Shaw Brothers Commercial entertainment cinema predominates • company becomes major player • Shaw Brothers cultivate wuxia warrior hero genre • in 1960s

vietnam war

The Vietnam War (1955-75) was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954.

hong kong handover

The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China, referred to as "the Handover" internationally or "the Return" in China, took place on 1 July 1997. The landmark event marked the end of British rule in Hong Kong, and is often considered to mark the end of the British Empire.

chungking express

Wong Kar wai

to live

Zhang Yimou

wuxia

a genre of Chinese fiction or film dealing with martial arts, sorcery, and chivalry. King Hu pioneers wuxia style with Shaw Brothers before moving to Taiwan, where he makes Touch of Zen Hu's wuxia style: choreographed battles, Peking opera Chinese motifs (inspires Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

saturation marketing

a situation in which a product has become diffused (distributed) within a market; the actual level of saturation can depend on consumer purchasing power; as well as competition, prices, and technology.

civil rights movement

a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free

cinema verite

a style of filmmaking characterized by realistic, typically documentary motion pictures that avoid artificiality and artistic effect and are generally made with simple equipment.

bonnie and clyde

arthur penn

camp

behaving flamboyantly, exaggerated gender performance

merchandising

branded products used to promote a particular movie, popular music group, etc., or linked to a particular fictional character.

long lens/telephoto shooting

camera lens which has a focal length that is longer than the diagonal measure of the film or sensor that receives its image. It is used to make distant objects appear magnified with magnification increasing as longer focal length lenses are used. telephoto lens is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length

jeanne dielman, 23 rue du commerce, 1080 bruxelles

chantal akerman

yellow earth

chen kaige

package deal

combining several concessions, parts, units, or a range of services, etc., which must be accepted or rejected in its entirety.

conglomerates

company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, such as television, radio, publishing, motion pictures, theme parks, or the Internet. These conglomerates exist all around the world, and they became a standard feature of the global economic system in 1950.

brechtian dramaturgy

distanciation, didacticism, etc. distanciation, anti-Aristotelian "epic" style----a politicized form of theater he called "epic drama," a style that relies on the audience's reflective detachment rather than emotional involvement.

direct cinema

documentary genre (street scenes, labor actions, conversations) Similar in many respects to the cinéma vérité genre, it was characterized initially by filmmakers' desire to directly capture reality and represent it truthfully, and to question the relationship of reality with cinema Direct Cinema was made possible, in part, by the advent of light, portable cameras, which allowed the hand-held camera and more intimacy in the filmmaking. It also produced movements that are the style's visual trademark. reality captured and a means of universal education -directly captured reality and represented it truthfully -questioned the relationship of reality with cinema.

satellite TV/home video

financing draws on foreign investment and more formal arrangements; industry modernizes 1990s also sees growth of satellite television and home video industry, • cross-platform opportunities for Hindi film

multi camera shooting

formed in 1968 by politically active filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. Their films are defined primarily for Brechtian forms, Marxist ideology, and a lack of personal authorship.

the godfatehr

francis ford coppola

AIDS crisis

immunodeficiency disease AIDS, which began in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1930s as a mutation of the chimpanzee disease SIV Found its way to the shores of the United States as early as 1960, but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of it in young gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981.

1970s social tumult

india These movements largely distanced themselves from political parties, or tried to cut across the ideologies of the political parties. Yet many of them rooted themselves or drew from ideologies of the Mahatma Gandhi, various shades environmentalisms or gender politics, or socialism.

economic liberalization

india, etc. 1990s refers to the economic liberalisation, initiated in 1991, of the country's economic policies, with the goal of making the economy more market-oriented and expanding the role of private and foreign investment. Specific changes include a reduction in import tariffs, deregulation of markets, reduction of taxes, and greater foreign investment. Liberalisation has been credited by its proponents for the high economic growth recorded by the country in the 1990s and 2000s. Its opponents have blamed it for increased poverty, inequality and economic degradation.

weekend

jean luc goddard

chronicle of a summer

jean rouch

touch of zen

king hu

mauvais sang

leos carax

the graduate

mike nichols

new american cinema

movement in American film history from the mid-to-late 1960s (Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate) when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence in United States, influencing the types of films produced, their production and marketing, and the way major studios approached film-making. In New Hollywood films, the film director, rather than the studio, took on a key authorial role. Narrative often strongly deviated from classical norms.

underground film

out of the mainstream either in its style, genre, or financing.

may 1968

paris demonstrations/strikes The volatile period of civil unrest in France during May 1968 was punctuated by demonstrations and massive general strikes as well as the occupation of universities and factories across France. At the height of its fervor, it brought the entire economy of France to a virtual halt.[1] The protests reached such a point that political leaders feared civil war or revolution; the national government itself momentarily ceased to function after President Charles de Gaulle secretly left France for a few hours. The protests spurred an artistic movement, with songs, imaginative graffiti, posters, and slogans but also intense violence, which ultimately ensured their defeat and the Gaullist government to remain strong and unopposed by its socialist critics. The unrest began with a series of student occupation protests against capitalism, consumerism and traditional institutions, values and order. THen workers on strikes

women on the verge of a nervous breakdown

pedro almodovar

6th generation

post-Tiananmen 1990s young filmmakers Filmmakers revisit Fifth Generation themes of ethnography and social problems, but in less aestheticized way and within the new context of globalization and urbanization Films made "unofficially" without script approval, bypassing censorship: enjoy little commercial circulation in China apart from pirated, unofficial video market

micro politics

refers to the use of formal and informal power by individuals and groups to achieve their goals in organizations. Cooperative and conflictive processes are integral components of micropolitics.

primary

robert dew

production code

set of industry moral guidelines. Followed well into 1950s, but during this time the code began to weaken due to the combined impact of television, influence from foreign films, bold directors (such as Otto Preminger) pushing the envelope, and intervention from the courts, including the Supreme Court

jaws

steven spielberg

experimental film

strucutral, lyrical, compilation

post modernism

surface play, humor, pastiche, high/low mixing

agencies

talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, film directors, musicians, models, professional athletes, writers, screenwriters, broadcast journalists, and other people in various entertainment or broadcast businesses.

bollywood

the Indian movie industry, based in Mumbai (Bombay).

slow motion

the action of showing film or playing back video more slowly than it was made or recorded, so that the action appears slower than in real life.

globalization

the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale. Until the liberalisation of 1991, India was largely and intentionally isolated from the world markets

ethnography

the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.

cold war

the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.

memories of underdevelopment

tomas gutierrez alea

reflex viewfinder

viewfinder system with a mirror placed behind a lens. The light passing through the lens is reflected by the mirror to a focusing screen, usually ground glass. The image formed on this ground glass can be observed directly

movida madrileña

was a countercultural movement that took place mainly in Madrid during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco's death in 1975. It represented the resurrection of the economy in Spain and the emergence of a new Spanish identity. This hedonistic cultural wave was born in Madrid, then appeared in other Spanish cities, such as Barcelona, Bilbao and Vigo. It was characterized by freedom of expression, transgression of the taboos imposed by the Franco regime, use of recreational drugs, the "coming out" of the Madrilenian cheli and the "pasota" dialect and a new spirit of freedom on the streets.

heart of glass

werner herzog

Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino

wrote the manifesto "Toward a Third Cinema". The idea of a political Third Cinema, opposed to Hollywood cinema and European auteur cinema, inspired film makers in many so-called developing countries.