People
______ was one of the first filmmakers deliberately to address a smaller segment of the film-going public.
Bresson
The breakdown of the post-war system of production allowed directors such as Truffaut, Chabrol, and Malle to
Express particular views of life and of cinema
The genre that many directors/producers worked in during the post-war period
Documentary
High saturation of documentary films influenced the development and interest in this genre
Fiction
Varda's first film
La Pointe-Courte (1956)
______ was 27 when he/she directed their first feature in the summer of 1955.
Agnes Varda
This artist's films provoked widespread social debate about feminism and other social topics
Varda's films
"bonuses for quality", the supplemental funding decided by a jury
primes à la qualité
The conclusion of WWII, primarily the usage of the atom bomb, inspired this film
Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
The film dedicated to Max Ophuls in 1961, created by Jacques Demy
Lola
______ became one of the most commercially successful artisans of post-New Wave cinema.
Edouard Molinaro
This only had little change on French commercial cinema.
Nouvelle Vague
The movement which developed under the leadership of the ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch and used new technology in an active, often confrontational way.
Cinéma vérité
The title of New Wave filmmakers in opposition to Cahiers du Cinéma
Left Bank School
The Holocaust documentary developed by Resnais
Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, 1955)
This artist used cinema to deal with anxiety and chronic depression
Georges Franju
The influence of Marxism led artist's such as Marguerite Duras to view mainstream cinema as an instrument of
Social Control
Moralistes works were interested in the analysis of these two things
Thought and Emotion
Although New Wave cinema participated in counter-culture and nontraditional film-making and topics, it did little to change this
Commercial Cinema
Eric Rohmer's first feature, which was not commericially successful, was
Le Signe du lion (The Sign of Leo, 1959/62)
Pushed boundaries of film by producing musicals or operas on screen
Jaques Demy
these two events are most seen referenced in films at the time
World War II and Algerian War
Comedies et proverbes feature what kind of protagonists?
Female
sources of inspiration for the Left Bank School
Contemporary French Literature, New Novel, and Surrealist
This film's crushing financial failure forced Rohmer to return to contemporary, sexually oriented films.