week 5

Question 1

high culture vs pop culture

Answer 1

popularized in 1974, Williams “1.high culture is lost, because of wide-spread popular education, popular communication systems and mass society & 2. associated with ruling class and elite, nowadays bcs of democracy has become the popular culture “
high culture - needs contextualization, understanding the political, cultural, societal broader contexts in which the films were created

Question 2

guilty pleasure
3 guilty pleasure films

Answer 2

something you like, but shouldn’t
induces pleasure, but brings a lot of guilt
Superbad, US, 2007
Draft Day, US, 2014
Wonka, US/UK/Can, 2023

Question 3

1st film

Answer 3

A scene of Garden of Roundhay, France, 1888
Newark Athlete, US, 1891, Thomas Edison

Question 4

First real motion picture

Answer 4

Lumiere brothers, Workers Leaving the Lumiere factory in Lyon, 1895

Question 5

First paid cinema projection

Answer 5

The Sprinkler Sprinkled, 1895, France

Question 6

Lumiere brothers

Answer 6

1. created the device
2. saw the potential of cinema

Lumiere brothers didn’t see potential for cinema to create stories

Question 7

the potential of cinema

Answer 7

1. documenting lives
2. creating stories
3. see emotions

Question 8

Matilda effect

Answer 8

Margaret W. Rossiter, 1933 - referring to Matilda Joslyn Gage’s essay “Woman as an inventor” that women are erased from history

Question 9

woman that came up with the idea of storytelling

Answer 9

Alice Guy-Blache, The Cabagge Fairy, 1896, France

Question 10

cinema as entertainment

Answer 10

first sci-fi movie, George Melies, A Trip to the Moon, 1902, France
Recreated by Martin Scorsese, Hugo, 2011 - portrayal of Melies

Question 11

which art is cinema?

Answer 11

7th - Riciotto Camido, birth of the 6th art (FR/IT)

Question 12

film movements (definition)

Answer 12

wave of films following a trend in cinema of the time; movement will focus on what cinema should be and define it

Question 13

film movements

Answer 13

1. soviet montage
2. dogma 95
3. German expressionism
4. French poetic realism
5. Italian neorealism
6. french new wave

Question 14

soviet montage

Answer 14

1. editing against bourgeois cinema
2. downplay individual characters
3. overlapping or elliptical temporal (something is missing)

Question 15

dogma 95

Answer 15

Lars von Trier, and Thomas Vinterberg - emphasize the authenticity of cinema, raw and get rid of artificial additions

Festen, Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, 1998

Question 16

german expressionism

Answer 16

artists inner feelings, ideas over replicating reality, characterized by simplified shapes, bright colors, gestural marks or brushstrokes -> helps artists express how they see the world, getting inside their head

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920, Germany > most important of the movement
Metropolis, Fritz Lang, Germany , 1927

F.W.Murnau - most popular, first german expressionism filmmaker, became a producer in Hollywood
-Nosferatu, 1922, Germany
-Sunrise, 1927, US (Hollywood film in German expressionism)

Question 17

French poetic realism

Answer 17

1. life of little people, unusual heroes
2. anti-Hollywood, usually with sad endings
3. between the two world wars (1930-1939)

Rules of the Games, 1939, France, Jean Renoir
differences between upper and lower class; we focus on the wrong things –> more similarities between them

Question 18

italian neorealism

Answer 18

opposite of German expressionism
- cinema of the poor
- using non-professional actors
-focusing on difficult life conditions
The Bicycle thief, 1948, Italy

Question 19

Tim Burton

Answer 19

inspired by German expressionism
scouted by Hollywood
Nosferatu, 1922 = Vincent, 1982

Question 20

French New wave

Answer 20

50s-60s - promoted an individualistic approach against ‘‘cinema de papa’’ - old fashioned cinema
-auteur

Francois Truffaut
The 400 blows, 1959, France (just about a guy, no purpose - runs in the water)
Jean-Luc Godard- The Thinker, Breathless, 1960, France (dies on the pavement in the end - girl chasing after)
=nontypical endings

Question 21

auteur theory

Answer 21

director is viewed as the major creative force in a motion picture

Question 22

Agnes Varda

Answer 22

Matilda effect
Cleo from 5 to 7, Fr/IT, 1962 - female gaze (coined by John, popularized by Laura Maurey, represents women in society

Question 23

who decides what a good film is?

Answer 23

ranking
-IMDB - member-generated
- Rotten tomatoes
-2022 rotten tomatoes - happened one night, Frank Capra, 1934. US
film critics - write or publish reviews on films

Question 24

Pierre Bourdieu

Answer 24

A social critique of the judgement of taste, “People with more cultural capital decie what consitutes, people with less accept the ruling class”

Question 25

British Film Institute

Answer 25

analyze, promote cinema - education ranking every 10 years Sight & Sound (1639 participants)

Question 26

Sight & Sound

Answer 26

international film magazine

Question 27

best films of all time

Answer 27

1. Vertigo 2. Citizen Kane 3. Tokyo Story 4. 5. Sunrise

Question 28

focus on 3 films, ranking changed after 2022

Answer 28

1. Playtime, 1967, France (unique film on its own) -23rd - inverted sound -no focus on dialogue, central character doesn't speak - diegetic sound - sound is the most important 2. Wings of Desire, 1987, Fr/Germany, Win Winders - divide between Germany in Berlin - angels document what humans are doing; angel falls in love with a human and loses his wings, transforming into a human - B&W - angels don't see color, can't feel 3. Jeanne Dielman, Belgium, 1975, Chantal Akerman - 1st female director to have a nr. 1 female

Question 29

susan sontag

Answer 29

intellectual, writer, filmmaker; the decay of cinema "For some 15 years there were new masterpieces every month, now the balance has tipped in the favor of cinema as industry"

Question 30

a cinema legend

Answer 30

Arrival of a train at La Ciotat, France, 1896