This institution, founded by Henri Langois, was essential to the formation of French film culture in the post-World War II period, due to his eclectic film programming.
What is the Cinématheque Français?
100
One of these two devices, practiced frequently by Hollywood cinema, are generally not found in "art films."
What are cause-and-effect narratives; goal-oriented, psychologically-defined protagonists.
100
A mode of Modernist approach to art where the creator works within the purity of the medium
What is Purism?
100
This manifesto believed that primitivisim was a vital force, and that violence was essential to Latin American cinema as a way of expressing their plight.
What are the Aesthetics of Hunger?
100
This was enacted by Americans to help rebuild Europe, Post World War II, and also led to a dominance of American culture.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
With this strangely dismissive phrase, these commercial films were criticised for their bourgeois values and divorcement from real Italian life.
What are "White Telephone" films?
200
David Bordwell argues that these are the first instances of the international postwar cinema.
What are neorealist films?
200
A Postmodernist approach that borrows from many different forms and media without regard to high & low art, or the original context.
What is pastiche?
200
This genre of British films, adapted from 1950s plays, featured working class heroes and left-wing themes.
What are "Angry Young Man" films?
200
This court decision mandated that studios divest themselves of their theatres and stop block booking, resulting in a decrease in production that indirectly led to the rise of art cinema.
What is the Paramount Decision/Decree?
300
This "type" of director was criticised by François Truffaut for its middle-class values, and slavish devotion to the script, amongst other reasons.
What is the metteur-en-scène?
300
This film critic could be considered the first major critic of the art cinema because he praised loose narrative structures and the deep-focus long-take aesthetic. He favoured directors who placed "faith in reality" over those who placed "faith in the image".
Who is Andre Bazin?
300
A celebration of low styles or genres of artwork, marked by excess and extravagance, but also seriousness, and a failed attempt at creating true art works.
What is camp?
300
This studio was the largest in Hong Kong in the 1970s, and specialized in genre films, largely action (Kung Fu).
What is the Shaw Bros. Studio?
300
This series of studio self-censorship regulations was founded in 1934, and did not phase out until the late 1960s.
What is the Production Code Administration?
400
This year was the source of much social unrest across the world--mainly in France, but also in Czechoslovakia, Vietnam, Mexico, and the United States.
What is 1968?
400
This narrative approach to art cinema narrative is very much opposed to classical cinema's cause-and-effect closure.
What is ambiguity?
400
This type of artwork is both popular and populist--part of the Postmodernist ethos.
What is vernacular art?
400
This tradition of films was politically progressive, and therefore favoured by audiences abroad, but faced censure from domestic government authorities because of its unflattering depiction of daily life.
What is the Czech New Wave?
400
Two of these American directors were heralded by the French New Wave as being the true artists and auteurs of the international cinema
Who are Howard Hawks, Samuel Fuller, John Ford, and Nicholas Ray?
500
This protected the Italian film industry in 1949--a combination of loans to filmmakers and restrictions on the minimum number of days that theatres had to show domestic content.
What is the Andreotti Law?
500
A belief of cinema that art film both seeks to explore, as well as question--not so much recreation of the world, but a constructed understanding of it.
What is reality/realism?
500
This modernist view of art believes that there are particular forms and functions that appropriate to very particular modes of artistic expression--i.e., particular traditions possess an essential quality
What is medium specificity?
500
This filmmaker discovered Cahiers du Cinema and the concept of the auteur in the 1950s, which greatly influenced his writing and filmmaking in Brazil.
Who is Glauber Rocha?
500
The 1952 film "The Miracle" was the subject of a court case that finally established cinema under this protected category.