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Megapicture components

1.High concept 2.Bankable Stars 3.Pre-Sold Properties 4.Special Effects

race films

1920's "Race" Films•While the portrayals of Blacks by White actors in blackface provided limited and highly stereotypical African American roles and characters in mainstream films, the "all-colored cast" films purposefully showcased positive depictions of African Americans

IMAX

A large-format film system that is projected horizontally rather than vertically to produce an image approximately ten times larger than the tandard 35mm Since TVs used to

panchromatic

A property of film stock that responds to a full spectrum of colors, rendering them as shades of gray, and became the standard for black and-white movies after 1926

Ida Lupino

Actress who co-wrote, co-produced in the 40's and 50's. First woman to direct a film noir

Sidney Poitier

African American actor who resented playing roles of servant, maid, and sidekicks for white heroes. One a best picture award.

Anamorphic

An anamorphic camera lens compresses the horizontal axis of an image onto a strip of 35mm film or a projector lens that then "unsqueezes" the image to produce a widescreen image.

academy ratio

An aspect ratio of screen width to height of 1.37:1, the standard adopted by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1932 and used by most films until the introduction of widescreen in the 1950s; similar to the standard television ratio of 1.33:1 or 4:3.

fritz lang

Born in Vienna, Austria in 1890 he directed two of Pre-War Germany's most revered films; the science fiction classic Metropolis (1927) and psychological thriller M (1931).

Jean Luc-Goddard

Breathless—his first and last mainstream success—has been mimicked by generations of filmmakers.

David Lean

British Created Lawrence of arabia

David O' Selznick

Created the successful indie Gone with the wind

Vittorio De Sica

Director of Bicycle Thieves. One of the most influential films ever.

George Romero

Director of Night of the Living Dead

Theda Bara, Clara bow, louise brooks

Early silents sex symbols

jean harlow, lana turner, marilyn monroe, racquel welch, pam grier, sharon stone

Early talkies sex symbols.

Stepin Fetchit

First black performer to earn over a million dollars.

Wim Wenders:

German filmmaker who began his career in 1967. Successful in both German and mainstream American markets, his notable films include the German Alice in the Cities (1974), The American Friend (1977), and Wings of Desire (1988) and the English Paris, Texas (1984), and Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

Blockbuster Era

Merchandising, Young target audiences, Franchice Films/Sequels, Megapictures

Blackboard Jungle

Movie in the 1950s which tied rock music to teen rebellion; first movie to have a rock n roll soundtrack; propelled Rock Around the Clock to a number one hit

cult film

One that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans who enthusiastically champion films that are not generally acknowledged as worthy.

Marlon brando

Received the first 1 million dollar paycheck

LETTERBOX

The black box that appears around an image, such as a widescreen video when it is displayed on a screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio. (3)

pan and scan

The process used to transfer a widescreen-format film to the 4:3 television aspect ratio. A computercontrolled scanner determines the most important action in the image and then crops peripheral action and space or presents the original frame as two separate images.

widescreen ratio

The wider, rectangular aspect ratio of typically 1.85:1 or 2.35:1

Aspect ratio

The width-to height ratio of the film frame as it appears on a movie screen or television monitor

Off-Hollywood Indies

Use recognizable genres and stars, but with lower budgets and riskier subjects and themes

Oscar Micheaux

an African-American filmmaker who produced "race movies", showing all African-American casts in a variety of roles

Italian Neorealism

an emphasis on the value of ordinary people--in particular the poor. A preoccupation with Italy's Fascist past and its aftermath of wartime devastation. Often featured Christian and Marxist humanism...the idea that all social classes should be treated equally and with compassion. An avoidance of neatly or cleverly plotted stories. A dark and gritty sensibility that often focused on darker themes

Indies

any film made outside the Hollywood studio system. low production budgets and inexpensive marketing costs

Guillermo del Toro

as able to parlay his childhood love of the macabre into a highly successful career as a filmmaker, making his feature debut in 1993 withCronos.

Francois Truffaut

became an auteur starting withThe 400 Blows, which won him the best director award at Cannes and led the French new-wave charge.

Bollywood

born at the end of the 1950's, it featured motion pictures filled with comedy, laughter and rock music, rather than dramatic scenes and sad songs.

Alfred Hitchcock

british father arranged to have him locked in a cell at the local police station for five minutes after he misbehaved giving him a lifelong interest in the subject of guilt. He started in the film business as a title card writer but soon evolved into penning scenes

James stewart

decided to freelance, and became a precedent-setting pioneer of the percentage deal, in which he would receive up to half the profits of his movies

John Cassavetes

directs the award winning Shadows, an improvised film considered a landmark in the Indie movement.

French new wave

disdain for conventional continuity editing. Use of jump cuts and modernist techniques of montage. The long take: sequences extended beyond conventional limits. Direct recording of sound Improvisations added later by post-synchronization. Scripts were more personal and autobiographical, but the mise-en-scene was the place in the film where subjectivity really ruled.

high concept film

films are those that can be reduced to a single marketing image, which can shared across various media

Pedro Almodovar

he most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker of his time arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in a flea-market.

Arty Indies

he success of Stranger launched an indie trend towards artifice and stylization.

Alfonso cuaron

helmed several movie and television projects before directing the erotic road filmY TuMamáTa m b i é n. After taking the reigns as director ofHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, he received further critical acclaim with his dystopic dramaChildren of Men.

Bollywood

is a combination of Bombay (Mumbai's old name) and Hollywood and it is often used to summarize all movies produced in India. B

Merchant -Ivory

james Ivory, Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer-Jhabvalagenerated sophisticated, nostalgic, intelligent, and lush costume dramas beginning in the mid-80s:

Retro Hollywood Indies

lowed Indies to exploit many traditional genres that Modern Hollywood ignored. Such as Low Budget Horror(A Nightmare on Elm Street), and Film Noir (The Usual Suspects).

jean-Luc Goddard

pioneer of the French new wave, he has had an incalculable effect on modern cinema.Breathless—his first and last mainstream success—has been mimicked by generations of filmmakers.

Sofia Coppola , Ava duvernay

prominent female director of today

Steven Soderbergh

sex, lies, and videotape debuts at the newly named Sundance Film Festival (formerly the U.S. Film Festival). It's credited with helping inaugurate the indie filmmaking boom of the 1990s.

wolfgang peterson

success with Das Bootled him to "Hollywood" success, both critically and at the box office.

Merchant-ivory

team of American-born director James Ivory, Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer-Jhabvalagenerated sophisticated, nostalgic, intelligent, and lush costume dramas beginning in the mid-80s:a luminous and engaging E.M. Forster adaptation titledA Room With a View (1986)t

Blaxploitation

the exploitation of black people, especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies.

Oscar Micheaux

the first major African-American feature filmmaker. Produced the Homesteader

pedro almodovar

the most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker of his time arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in a flea-market.

DIY Indies

unprofessional look and its lack of budget. A

Smell-O-Vision

was developed by the Swiss-born Hans Laube, in which 30 different smells were injected into a movie theatre's seats when triggered by various points in the film's soundtrack. Only one film was made with this gimmicky process

Feminist Counter Cinema lois weber

• A cinema that resists the male gaze • disrupt/distort the pleasure of looking at women as objects