Can You Answer the Following French New Wave of Movies Flashcards

Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film Third Edition Chapter 10 terms and highlights

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Who cofounded the journal Cahiers du cinema and is considered the father of the French New Wave?
André Bazin
Which of the following occurred in the new Hollywood?
The studio system collapsed.
Films of the Italian neorealist movement are characterized by _____________ locations, ____________ actors, and a ____________ visual style.
real; nonprofessional; documentary
These are three defining aesthetic characteristics of Italian neorealism (pages 438–441).
Literally, "dark chamber." A box (or room in which a viewer stands); light entering (originally from a tiny hole, later through a lens) on one side of the box ( or room) projects an image from the outside onto the opposite side or wall.
Camera obscura
How would you characterize the Hollywood studio system during the classical period?
a top-down organization in which management controlled everything
The Motion Picture Production code began in the silent era of Hollywood and was not abandoned until 1968. (True or False)
False

The Motion Picture Production Code was instituted in 1930. There was no code in the silent period (page 436).
The Dogme 95 movement in Denmark drafted a manifesto that includes WHICH of the following rules:
The director must not be credited.
French New Wave director ______________ directed The 400 Blows and wrote the influential essay “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema.”
François Truffaut
Negative or negative photographic image
A negative photographic image on transparent material that makes possible the reproduction of the image.
The first movie studio-a crude, hot cramped shack in which Thomas Edison and his staff began making movies.
Black maria
Besides being one of the first “Westerns,” what is significant about Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 film The Great Train Robbery?
It is one of the first films to pioneer the idea of continuity editing.
What political leader nationalized the Soviet film industry and established schools that trained filmmakers to make propaganda films?
Lenin
Which approach to film history is concerned with the artistic significance and influence of individual films or directors?
aesthetic approach
Filmmakers of the New American Cinema such as Robert Drew, Don Alan Pennebaker, and brothers Albert and David Maysles are associated with the ___________ movement, which draws inspiration from cinéma vérité.
Direct Cinema
What are the four traditional approaches to film history?
Aesthetic, technological,economic, social