Test 2 Flashcards
What was the purpose of Moscow Film School?
To train actors and technicians in agitki
What was the world’s first film school?
Moscow Film School
What is agitki?
Political propaganda
Lenin
Aims for balance of entertainment and education of illiterate population; chairman of Bolshevik party
What films were Eisenstein famous for?
Battleship Potemkin, Strike, Ten Days That Shook The World
What film was Pudovkin famous for?
Mother
How did Lenin spread propoganda?
With agit-trains and Kino-Pravda
What is Kino-Pravda?
A monthly newsreel series in Russia
Who made agit-trains and Kino-Pravda?
Dziga Vertov
What is constructivism?
Advancing film through biomechanics
Meyerhold
Used power of new technologies to advance the revolutionary cause
What was Eisenstein? What was Pudovkin?
Engineer; chemist
What did Pudovkin believe the foundation of film art was?
Editing
What was the film style of Russia?
Soviet realism
Whose ideology was used by Soviet filmmakers?
Karl Marx, who outlined tension between owners, capitalists, and workers, proletariats
What is the most famous scene in Potemkin?
Odessa steps massacre
What kind of editing is used in the Odessa stair sequence?
Soviet montage; alternation between the two groups and how closely they are depicted
Who made the film Greed?
Stroheim
What book was Greed based on?
McTeague
What version of McTeague came out before Greed?
Life’s Whirlpool
Whose films did Stroheim act in?
Griffith’s
What films did Stroheim appear in?
Birth of a Nation, Hearts of the World
What was Stroheim’s first film? What film followed?
Blind Husbands; Foolish Wives
What company did Stroheim later sign a contract with?
Goldwyn Company
