World Cinema Quizlet
Abbas Kiarostami
- the director from Tehran, Iran who made Copie Conforme
Metropolis (1927)
-prod: Erich Pommer -dir: Fritz Lang -Kammerspielfilm -Expressionist Techniques -UFA's most expensive film -marked the end of Empressionist movement
George Melies
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Diaspora
A dispersion of people from their homeland
Dogme 95
A group of mostly Scandinavian filmmakers who signed a manifesto, agreeing to abandon all aspects of Hollywood artifice. They use only hand-held digital video cameras, shoot only in natural light, and add no music.
J-Horror Film
A gruesome Japanese horror subgenre with a perverse psychological bent.
New Iranian Cinema
A new wave of Cinema in Iran that was heavily influenced by the political/religious government.
Italian Neorealism (1942-1951)
A reaction to Italian cinema under Mussolini. Goal is revealing contemporary social conditions. Often uses location filming and available light. Photography seems documentary-like. Loose narrative style lacks omniscient knowledge of events. As Italy prospered, the movement ended.
Won Kar-Wai
A revolutionary Chinese film maker that made movies for the Hong Kong.
Soviet Realism
A style of art in the Soviet Union beginning in the 1930s that used naturalistic or realistic images in service of Soviet government propaganda.
Poetic Realism
A style of realism that is expressed through lyrical language.
Orientalism
A term coined by literary scholar Edward Said to describe the way Westerners misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures.
Ingmar Bergman
A twentieth-century Swedish filmmaker noted for his slow-paced, highly symbolic, often obscure works, including Wild Strawberries and The Virgin Spring. His later films explored personal isolation and family relationships, as in Cries and Whispers and Scenes from a Marriage.
World Cinema
A version of cinema that is worldwide. Film that is outside of Hollywood.
Globalization
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
Mise-en-scene
All of the elements placed in front of the camera to be photographed: the settings and props, lighting, costumes and makeup, and figure behavior.
Surrealism
An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images
Kuleshov Effect
Any series of shots that in the absence of an establishing shot prompts the spectator to infer a spatial whole on the basis of seeing only portions of the space
Actualities
Edited audio clips from people interviewed
Social Realism
Emphasizes influence of social and economic conditions of an era on characters, events, and social institutions
La Strada Director
Federico Fellini
dark water
Film from 2002 in Japan about a ghost girl and a normal single mom.
New Mexican film
Film movement in Mexico to counteract the Hollywood cinema industry
Fourth Cinema
Filmmaking practices of indigenous people
Kuroneko
Folk tale based in feudal Japan.
Truffaut
French film theorist, writer and director. An avid devotee of American genre films, especially film noir, helped form the leading edge of French filmmakers seeking to make more personal, idiosyncratic films that came to be referred to as "le nouvelle vague" or "French New Wave." Directed "400 Blows" and "Jules and Jim." Also appeared as French scientist in Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
French inventors of motion pictures whose equipment demonstrations abroad stimulated the growth of cinema around the world.
Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966
Transnational Cinema
Globalized Cinema, cinema made through the participation of multiple countries either through financing, production services, stars or other production personnel.
First Cinema
Hollywood
Jidai-geki
In Japan, a costume drama or period piece set in the feudal past.
Bollywood
Indian version of Hollywood (film industry), centered in Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
Breathless (1960)
Jean-Luc Godard
kaidan
Jhorror movie
Third Cinema
Latin American film movement that started in the 1960s-70s which decries neocolonialism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money.
Vertov - Man with a moving Camera
Movie during the early 20th century showing the first uses of movie editing and the average day of the Soviet Union.
Park Chan-wook
Oldboy
Awara
One of the most famous Bollywood films in the 50's.
open city director
Roberto Rossellini
Sergei Eisenstein
Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures (1898-1948)
Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray, 1955
Luis Bunuel
Spanish surrealist filmmaker
dialectal montage
Technique that shows the discontinuity of edited shots
French New Wave
The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm and is an example of European art cinema. Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style, and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm.
French Cinema (1930s)
The North (Occupied France) - controlled by Germany: Only German films at first (everything else banned) French production allowed after 1941 The South (Vichy, France): - Small, poorly-funded studios - Resistance filmmaking
cinematic language
The accepted systems, methods, or conventions by which the movies communicate with the viewer.
Dialectic Opposition
This means that through language, opposition comes change.
Parallel Cinema (India)
This was the jumpstart of Bollywood
Apu Trilogy
Trilogy of three films that made the foundation of Indian Cinema.
The Bicycle Thief
Vittorio De Sica, 1948
New Korean Cinema
Waves of films that grew in the 90's and the 2000's.
Wings of Desire
Wim Wenders, 1987
Parallel Cinema
a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema, represented especially by popular Hindi cinema, known today as Bollywood.
kabuki
a type of Japanese drama in which music, dance, and mime are used to present stories
Soviet Montage Theory
an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing
New German Cinema
an internationally recognized film movement launched in West Germany in 1962 by a group of young filmmakers known for their confrontation with Germany's Nazi and postwar past
German Expressionist Cinema
film movement drawing on painting and theatrical developments that emerged in Germany between 1918 and 1929; expressionism used dramatic lighting and set and costume design to represent irrational forces
Post-colonialism
term used to describe conditions shared by nations that were once colonies
Second Cinema
the European art film, which rejects Hollywood conventions but is centered on the individual expression of the auteur director
Ousmane Sembene
the father of African cineman, a sengalese novelist and former dockworker, focuses on themes of resistance to colonialism, a critique of the postcolonial African ruling elites, and the resilience of African women, his films have won prizes at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Ouagadougou festival
Weimar Cinema
the period of German cinema between 1919 and 1933
Onryo
vengeful spirit, "grudge"; typically a woman who was wronged during her life and seeks revenge
south korean new wave
wave of creativity after the dictatorship on the 1980's.
Surrealism Characteristics
•Subject matter came from artist's dreams •Everyday objects in unexpected situations •Might appear irrational •Automatism -drawing spontaneously without conscious thought •Weird juxtapositions •Exquisite corpse -Fold paper into ¼'s - Different artists draw the head, torso, legs, foot
