Week 5 - Auteurs: The 50’s & 60’-part 2. Flashcards
(80 cards)
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La’Aventura by
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Antonioni
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La’Aventura translates to
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The Adventure, but also something romantic without sincerity
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Antoini considered a ________ director
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Women’s director, films about relationships, women more intelligent
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La’Aventura considered an ______ film
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adult film, not XXX but adult themes
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Adult film of this type resignates with
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people with more life experience
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La’Aventura about NEW _____ & NEW _____
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new money and new elite
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Antonioni focuses on these wealthy lives & shows __________ w/ _____________
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BIG entertainment with little happiness
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Framing of La’Aventura
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Deep Focus, using distance of others as miniatures in scenes
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Background of scene portrayed
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Miniatures that serve almost as thought bubbles with entirely separate scenes going on
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We assume woman we follow @ first is ________ but ____________
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protagonist, but after the first scene she disappears and we never see her again
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Search for Anna is not _________
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NOT what film is about
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What does Sandro do at the beginning that portrays his disloyalty to Anna?
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Kisses her Best friend Claudia
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What does the kiss change in this film?
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Once he kisses her the camerawork changes from static to handheld, everything is seen as off kilter
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End of La’Aventura
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Screen split in half, one half w/ woman is a mountain, other half with man is a broken down brick wall
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Only seemingly moral character in enitre movie
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claudia
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Claudia’s intuitioni about Anna returning is
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actually Sandro’s returning Claudia’s infidelity
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What happens after Sandro cheats on Claudia
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Power shift from him to Claudia
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La Jetee Translation
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THE JETTY (catwalk that overlooks jetwalk)
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La Jetee technique
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All still photography except for short video of woman waking up & looks at camera
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Setting of La Jetee & threat
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Threat of WWIII+warfare
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Real world at time of La Jetee
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Had danger/hostility
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Fellini 8 1/2 about
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making film, memory, creative process
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8 1/2 budget
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HUGE
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8 1/2 was _________ for Fellini
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semi-autobiographical
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Style of 8 1/2 coined the phrase
Fellini-esque
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8 1/2 title
this was fellini's 8.5 film
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is 8.5 about reality?
NO
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Who checked into sanitarium in 8.5?
Gito, the protagonist, a filmmaker
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Transitions in 8.5
Fluid transitions from memory space to story space
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Film w/ test, tests who?
Clairvoyent
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Despite Gito being successful, he is still
struggling
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Asa Nisi Nasa
Magnificent phrase that transports us from clairvoyent place to Gito's warm childhood, a childhood chant
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Saraghina
does rumba, and Gito gets busted for paying her to do it w/ friends
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Gito seeks counsel of who for what?
Church, to make film about religon
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What did La'Aventura do for director?
put Michelangelo Antonioni's name on the international map
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Sandro profession
successful architect
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Aldo Scavarda's limpid black-and-white cinematography turns Antonioni's locations, on water or land, into postcards from the edge of despair.
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Visual style of La'Aventura
focus on very pure compositions. Each region or object is very clearly outlined.
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Antonioni tries to include the waterscape at all times. There is a "Psychological" aspect to this. If the landscapes of the film represent emotional moods, then adding water to them greatly increases the complexity of those moods.
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La'Aventura & love
It is more like an attempt to pass the time--like a game of solitaire, or flipping a coin. There is not even the possibility that the characters are in love, can love, have loved, will love.
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Characters in La'Avventura
(Antonioni’s) characters were parasites whose money allowed them to clear away the distractions of work, responsibility, goals and purposes, and exposed the utter emptiness within
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How does time travel happen in La Jetee
Blindfolded and wired to a monitoring device, the hero is drugged to facilitate his 'entry' into his own memories, where he accosts the woman and falls in love with her.
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End of La Jetee and future humanity
The hero uses his newfound skill to go into the future, where the survivors of humanity are eager to help. But he insists on returning to the fateful day on the airport observation platform ...
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The beauty in La Jetee is in its
The beauty of La Jetée is its simplicity.
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La Jetée's acknowledged inspiration is
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
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Director of La Jetee. Considered to be more of a _____ than a _________
Christ Marker considered to be more of a visual artist than purely a filmmaker
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In the film, World War III has destroyed Paris, and the post nculear war survivors do research on time travel in hope of
sending someone back in time to prevent the war
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Man chosen to go back in time is protagonist &
prisoner
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Upon his return, he is no longer of use to his experimenters, and is to be
executed. But the people of the future come to his rescue.
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The plot of the film is only secondary to
its idea.
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cinema allows artists like Marker to freely explore the possibility of multi-dimensionalism and that he did. In La Jetee, we flow from one dimension to another. Although the logic is not without flaws, the film is short enough to us to ignore it.
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problems artists face when expected to deliver something personal and profound with intense public scrutiny, on a constricted schedule, while simultaneously having to deal with their own personal relationships. It is, in a larger sense, about finding true personal happiness in a difficult, fragmented life.
8 1/2
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opoening of 8 1/2
buses + suffocating man, trapped inside his car, inexplicably begins to float into the skies, only to be abruptly tugged back to the ground
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___________ is searching for balance: between childhood traumas and idealism, the sensual and the intellectual, artistic integrity and commercial success.
Guido (Marcello Mastroianni)
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Guido as a director is ________________
mentally unable to commence work on his latest production.
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How many films has fellini filmed before 8.5
Fellini before this production: seven plus three collaborations (each counting as one-half
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One of the more humorous sequences is one in which the various women in his life all operate as a "harem" to serve his needs and then stage a revolution against the tyrant. the whips come out
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In 1946 the American film industry grossed 1.7 billion dollars domestically. Twelve years later, in 1958, receipts had
fallen to below one billion dollars. By 1962, receipts had fallen to $900 million, slightly more than half the 1946 gross.
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________ was increasingly attacked by the courts as an unfair restraint of open trade in the period immediately following World War II. The studio-owned chains of movie theatres also were seen as giving the “Majors” (the five biggest studios) an unfair monopolistic control of the market. In 1948, the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures, Inc. forced the studios to sell off their theatres.
Block Booking
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What invention lead to fall of hollywood, what did they do about this?
increasingly widespread dissemination of television sets into American homes. Hollywood declared war on TV, no Hollywood film was to be shown on it
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America's response to war on tv
Americans, nonetheless, chose to stay home and watch British films on their TVs or the new stars American television was rapidly developing.
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3. The Cold War years of the 1950s were dominated by an increasing fear of the
“Red Menace” which led to a general distrust of Hollywood as a bastion of communist sympathizers and left-leaning subversives.
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Response to red menace
One result of this right wing attack on Hollywood was the HUAC hearings of the early 1950s, which led to the “blacklisting” of certain screenwriters, directors and actors.
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________ like Columbia, with very few stars under contract, a small lot and no theatres fared better during this time of declining profits.
Smaller studios
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4. Declining ticket sales and increasing production costs forced the studios into massive layoffs of contract workers. Large studios like MGM found themselves increasingly burdened by rows of empty sound stages and acres of outdoor sets that went unused.
This marks the
End of the studio system reign
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3 innovations that were movie theaters trying to compete with tv
3D, Cinerama, Cinema Scope
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Cinerama
3 interlocked cameras, immense wrap-around screen with four interlocked projectors
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purpose of cinerama
to bring audience into the picture
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what remained commercially viable longer? cinerama or 3d?
at the time cinerama, because it was more carefully marketed but it too eventually succumbed to the logistical difficulties of its complicated technology.
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CinemaScope
based on a wide screen image. It proved the most durable and functional of the new technologies. Special anamorphic lenses squeezed a wide screen image onto conventional 35mm film and corresponding lenses on the projector then threw a huge, wide image across a curved theatre screen.
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Where these innovations the first to film viewing?
No, Abel Gance’s “Napoleon” from 1927 set the bar at the end of the silent era.
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Gance's Napoleon used expiramental techiniques to
emphasize cinematic movement
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Ways Napoleon was ahead of its time
use of handheld cameras
many scenes were hand tinted or toned.
final reel of the film to be screened as a triptych via triple projection, or Polyvision.
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Sound of Napoleon
Steophonic sound
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While "experimental" covers a wide range of practice, an "experimental film" is often characterized by the absence of linear narrative, the use of various abstracting techniques (out of focus, painting or scratching on film, rapid editing), the use of asynchronous (non-diegetic) sound or even the absence of any sound track. The goal is often to place the viewer in a more active and more thoughtful relationship to the film.
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through the 1960s, and to some extent after, many experimental films took an ____________ stance toward mainstream culture
oppositional
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It has been argued that much experimental film is no longer in fact "experimental," but has in fact become a film genre and that many of its more typical features - such as a non-narrative, impressionistic or poetic approaches to the film's construction - define what is generally understood to be "experimental".
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Prior to 1945 how was expiramental film seen?
, there was little consideration of film within the collection, exhibition, dissemination and scholarship of American art. Subsumed inside the realm of popular entertainment, cinema was shunned by academia, overlooked or outright ignored by art galleries and museums, and rendered absent in the pages of art publications.
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either categorized as an extension of previous artistic practices, or marginalized as “home movies.” _________ films up until ____________
expiramental films up until mid-40s hollywood golden age
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two parallel movements. The West Coast underground cinema, formally and spiritually inspired by San Francisco’s literary community, developed in the late-40s. The New American Cinema, a multidisciplinary group of New York-based artists, organized around issues of cooperation, exhibition and distribution in the late-50s.
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