French New Wave
Cleo from 5 to 7 shows political protests against this contemporary conflict that France was involved in
What is the Algerian War of Independence
Italian neorealism had a thematic interest in representing the lives of these groups of people
Who are the poor and working class?
According to Ezra, In Cleo from 5 to 7, Varda uses this motif to suggest how "cultural commodification finds its parallel [to how] Cléo herself is packaged and sold to the public spectacle."
What are masks?
This recently deceased New Wave director makes an appearance in the film within the film in Cleo from 5 to 7?
Who is Jean-Luc Godard?
Solanas and Gettino's essay "Towards a Third Cinema," takes the form of this genre of stark political writing
What is a manifesto?
What are on location shooting, nonlinear narratives, handheld cameras
According to Daisuke Miyao, Ozu uses these particular motifs to comment on the flows and movements of everyday life
What are clocks and watches?
Moffat uses this aural (audio) technique in Nice Colored Girls often found in documentary films about colonial subjects
What is voiceover narration?
Auteur theory suggests we can view this particular form of expression by looking at the body of creative works of a director over time
What is style?
According to Ning Ma, a tension between "an attempt at realism and an obsession with symbolic expression" characterizes this wave of mainland Chinese cinema
What is Fifth Generation Cinema?
In Cleo from 5 to 7, Agnes Varda redirects and challenges this particular circuit of looks between the characters, the camera, and the viewer
What is the male gaze?
This leader brought Italy under authoritarian fascist rule for several decades before it was overthrown after WWII
Who is Benito Mussolini?
According to Langford, the opening sequence of Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl filmed in color presents a parody of this type of film that featured colonial landscapes
What is a travelogue?
What is second cinema?
Indigenous filmmakers like Barry Barclay thought that Fourth Cinema should include and respect the presence of these communal members
Who are children and the elderly?
Agnes Varda expresses in her films this famous thinker's critique of sexist practices found in mainstream films 10 years before the thinker made the term popular in the essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
Who is Laura Mulvey?
One of the defining characteristics of Italian neorealism's approach to authentic everyday life included the use of this type of actor
Who are nonprofessional actors?
These are some of the reasons Frank Ukadide thought prevented the development and flourishing of African Cinema
What are Hollywood dominance, restrictions on funding, lack of material and technological resources
This French film critic believed that the "fundamental humanism of the [then] current Italian films" was their chief merit
Who is Andre Bazin?
This was the name Solanas and Getino gave to the films produced by dominant institutions like Hollywood
What is first cinema?
Flitterman-Lewis argues this scene in Cleo from 5 to 7 full of "signifiers of loss" illustrates the beginning of Cleo's transformation from "narcissistic enclosure" to "necessary intersubjectivity"
What is the rehearsal scene, the song Cri d'amour?
This screenwriter and critic had some ideas about the cinema reflected in neorealist work, including the idea that "The cinema’s overwhelming desire to see, to analyse, its hunger for reality, is an act of concrete homage towards other people, towards what is happening and existing in the world."
Who is Cesare Zavattini?
Filmmakers like Tracey Moffat sought to reverse this form of looking that positioned indigenous people as the object of anthropological inquiry and control
What is the ethnographic gaze?
This close to eye-level camera position is said to characterize the work of Yasujiro Ozu
What is a tatami shot?
This type of filmmaking, argue Solanas and Getino, "proletarianises the film worker and breaks down the intellectual aristocracy that the bourgeoisie grants to its followers. In a word, it democratises"
What is guerrilla filmmaking?