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History of Film/Cinema
Films
A Trip to the Moon
1902
% complete
French
Great Train Robbery
1903
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American Western
Birth of a Nation
1915
% complete
-US
-Directed by DW Griffith
-Narrative Film Form
-Cinematographer GW Bitzer
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
% complete
-German silent horror film/ German Expressionist
-Directed by Robert Weine
-moving beyond the restraints of reality
-the shot, instead of the scene
-abstract sets painted on canvas
-completely unseen acting style (strange walking methods)
-introduced the twist ending to film
-frame story (told in flashback)
The Battleship Potempkin
1925
% complete
-Soviet film
-Directed by Sergei Einstein
-Dramatizes version of the mutiny of tsarist regime on a battleship
-influential propaganda films
-use of montages
-used editing to get an emotional response from the audience to feel sympathy for the sailors
The General
1926
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-US
-Directed by Buster Keaton
-body language and facial features transferred well from Vaudeville shows to silent films
-Own stunts, no mechanical assistance
-Tight plot
The Jazz Singer
1927
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-American
-Directed by Alan Crosland
- Stars Al Jolson
-first full length motion picture with synchronized dialogue
Man with a Movie Camera
1929
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-Soviet Union documentary
-Directed by Dziga Vertov
-double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frame, jump cuts, dutch angles, stop motion,
Un Chien Andalou
1929
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-French silent surrealist short film
-Directed by Luis Banuel and Salvador Dali
Citizen Cane
1941
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-American Drama film
-Directed and starring Orson Welles
-innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure
-deep focus shot in the Cabin with young Cane playing outside through the window (contrast of black and white)
-low-angle shot, using ceilings as backgrounds (innovative because studios didnt have ceilings so they had to make their own) scene where Kane meets Leland after election loss
-tells story in flashbacks of different narrators (each narrator depicts a different part of Kane's life)
-the Reporter acts as a surrogate for the audience, piecing his life together by questioning his associates
-Extensive makeup was used to make Welles appear old
-one of the first films to use the soundtrack to create moods and emotions
The Bicycle Thief
1948
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-Italian post WWII film
-Directed by Vittorio De Sica
-best known work of Italian Realism
Singing in the Rain
1952
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-American Musical comedy about Hollywood's transition from silent films to talkies
-Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
-Starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds
-portrayed synchronization and amplification problems, stationary mics, cost of productions, audience reactions, new forms of acting, rennovating theaters, hiring new actors
On the Waterfront
1954
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-American crime drama
-Directed by Elia Kazan
-Starring Marlon Brando
-first message film (HUAC and cold war, blacklisting)
Jules et Jim
1962
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-French film
-Directed by Francois Truffaut
-Starring Jeanne Moreau
-product of French New Wave
-incorporates newsreel footage, photographic stills, freeze frames, panning shots, wipes, masking, dolly shots, voiceover narration.
-lightweight cameras to create fluid film style (postwar scenes shot with cameras mounted on bicycles)
The Shop on Mainstreet
1965
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-Czech film out of Czech New Wave
-Directed by Jan Kadar
-funded by Czechoslovakia's central authorities (all films under supervision of Communist Party)
-Tono and Jewish widow
The Godfather Part II
1974
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-American Crime epic
-Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
-Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Diane Keaton
-during the Hollywood Renaissance
Before the Rain
1994
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-Macedonian film
-Directed by Milco Mancevski
-divided into three stories (Words, Faces, and Pictures)
City of God
2002
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-Brazilian crime drama
-Directed by Fernando Meirelles
Periods
Dadaism
1916 - 1925
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-anti-logic, anti-meaning, anti-war, anti-art art
-in your face
-anti-authoritarian
-spontaneous and now
-shocking
-birth of collage
-dada is without meaning as nature is
-art without sense, that does not mean nonsense
-challenged existing art forms
German Expressionism
1920 - 1930
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-came out of WWI
-German film industry had no concept of the Soviet or American Film industries and had to make their own sort of films
-focused on the shot, instead of the scene
Surrealism
1925 - 1936
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-grew out of dada
-explored the unconscious, included madness and hallucinatory states
-freud's dream states
-continued to shock and sense the absurd
The American Studio Years
1930 - 1945
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Blacklist Era
1938 - 1954
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-HUAC committee decides Broadcasting and Hollywood need to be investigated
-1947: Hollywood 10 (was Hollywood 19). HUAC concerned with semi-documentary melodramas, film noir, and pro Russian films done on orders from the Pentagon. “Friendly witnesses testify against “unfriendly witnesses”. Much of this, as in all industries, union versus anti-union. Support from most major names in Hollywood who believed HUAC hearings had five major constitutional problems. Hollywood 10 found in contempt of Congress.
-McCarthyism
Italian Neorealism
1944 - 1952
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-stories set amongst the poor and working class
-filmed on location, with non-professional actors
-contend with difficult economic and moral conditions of post WWII Italy
-representing changes in Italian psyche and conditions of everyday life, including poverty, oppression, injustice and desperation
Hollywood in Transition
1946 - 1965
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-collapse of the studio structure
-concentrated more on one film project instead of a whole year's output
French New Wave
1958 - 1964
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-influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood films
-radical experiments with editing, visual style and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm
-portable equipment and requiring little or no set up time
-documentary like style
-direct sounds on film stock that required less light
-filming techniques: fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes
Czech New Wave
1961 - 1969
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-only 8 years where czech artists and writers could enjoy creative and intellectual freedom
-a focus on character was central
-objective to make Czech people collectively aware that they were participants in a system of opression and incompetence which had brutalized them all
-long, unscripted dialogues, dark and absurd humor, casting of non-professional actors
-differed from French New Wave by having stronger narratives and more funds
Hollywood Renaissance
1964 - 1976
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-Bonnie and Clyde
-influenced by French New Wave
-offbeat anti-hero as protagonist
-explicit and graphic treatment of sexual conflicts, psychological problems and/or violence
-mix of comic with serious
-tawdry underbelly of reality as subject matter
-villains tended to be the legat authorities
-new obligatory ending was unhappy; usually the protagonist dies
-good does not triumph over evil; usually law and good were antithetical
-antihero held on to their individualism and beliefs
New Hollywood
1965 - 1982
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