The Early Cinema
name the two individuals who invented the kinetograph and the kinetoscope
Thomas Edison and WKL Dickson
name two things the Italian Silent Cinema was known for...
1. Historical Epics
2. The diva (star system)
what was the Kino-Eye trying to capture?
cinematic truth and a new, objective depiction of reality.
name the film we watched in class that is often seen as a feminist text, conveying the psychology of the women protagonist as she is in this terror and fear of her husband
Madame Beudet
modernity (64-64)
Name the two most prominent production companies in France at the beginning of the 20th century
Pathé Frères and Gaumont.
Describe Italian Futurism as generally and as simply as you can...
Italian Futurism:
Early 20th century art movement begun in Italy that emphasizes modernity, technology, industry, war, and dynamism, has been considered proto Fascism because of its embrace of war.
what filmmaker that we studied was inspired/influenced by newsreels and styles of Bolshevik journalism?
Dziga Vertov
name two of the three things Dada related films attempt to disrupt
Sergei Eisenstein was influenced by what specific Marxist ideology
dialectical materialism
name at least 2 aspects of the realist tendency(Lumiere Brothers) and 2 aspects of the formal tendency (Melies)
The two tendencies…
Lumiere Brothers: realist tendency
George Melies: formalist tendency
what is the depiction of younger males in diva films?
irresponsible or child-like, they cheat and gamble
What was Eisenstein’s critique of Kuleshov and Pudovkin’s theory of montage?
Answer: says montage should emphasize collision of shots rather than shots as bricks or building blocks. This collision of shots is what he considers as that which affects the audience’s emotions and attention.
Film movements influenced by art movements
German Expressionism (by ______) and Soviet Montage (by ______)
expressionism and Russian constructivism
which country's domestic industry didn’t begin until the advent of sound in the 1920’s- and was filled with smaller firms (as opposed to Hollywood which was vertically integrated).
France
what is the name of the piece and the person who wrote the piece complicating the popular history of the early motion picture industry?
hint: They coined the term “grand narrative of mechanization”.
Beginnings by Alison McMahan
who was known as “Cretinetti” and also known as “Boireau” in Pathe comedy series?
Andre Deed
conflict in Marx's dialectical materialism is between two things, what are they called (to Marx) and what do they make?
thesis and antithesis create new phenomenon called a synthesis
name the film we watched in class that was eventually confiscated by French authorities and why...
L'Age d'Or (1930) for its inappropriateness as it critiques religious institutions and certain notions of societal morality.
Based on the quote, who is the author and what is the title of the piece...
“We are not tearing down artistic cinema in order to soothe and amuse the consciousness of the working masses with new rattles. We have come to serve a particular class, the workers and peasants not yet caught in the sweet web of art-drama. We have come to show the world as it is, and to explain to the workers the bourgeois structure of the world”(38).
“Provisional Instructions to Kino-Eye Groups” Vertov (1926)
explain the "grand narrative of mechanization" and give one example from a reading (Week 1/2).
As McMahan calls it, “the grand narrative of mechanization”/ the drive to quantify and measure? “…were the product of the industrial drive to mechanization, the drive to measure, quantify, and ultimately automate every aspect of life. Moving pictures were born out of a science called motion studies, with the immediate goal of understanding human and animal locomotion in order to devise exercises to perfect the human soldier and solve the mysteries of flight” (Beginning, 23).
who wrote the Futurist Manifesto in 1909
F.T. Marinetti
What film (that we watched in class) is this quote from?
… “They are tempting us with Vodka don’t take it”
Strike (Eisenstein, 1925)
some themes of the film include labor uprising, strikes, class conflict, and collective action.
name two stylistic and one narrative characteristic of french poetic realism
Characteristics of French poetic realism include…
name the experimental film we watched in class from 1926 that was comprised of abstract, circulating disk formations, puns, and work play.
Anémic Cinema (Marcel Duchamp 1926)