Key Concepts
The label to designate the work of young film makers.
What is “Impressionist”?
This event prompted an influx of expatriate filmmakers to settle in Paris.
What is the "Bolshevik (or Russian) Revolution"?
This theatre director and film artist is known for his work bringing naturalist concepts to film.
Who is André Antoine?
This film by L'Herbier follows David Bordwell's model of of impressionism near perfectly, making it possibly one of the most impressionist films ever made.
What is El Dorado?
This avant garde film movement consists of disturbing images, dream-like mental states, and a hallucinatory nature of narrative.
What is the Surrealist movement?
This term best described Antoine’s Naturalist theatre productions.
What is "Slice of Life"?
After the coup d’etat by the Bolsheviks, this was one of the first actions taken by the new government.
What is the abolishment of private property?
This symbolist novelist was widely respected among the cinematic impressionists for his work, namely his concept of the "cult of the self".
Who is Maurice Barrès?
L'Herbier's most visually restrained film of the silent period.
What is "Feu Mathias Pascal"?
Cinematic Impressionism typically leaned to the political ___, while Pictorialist Naturalism leaned towards the political ___.
What is right and left?
The merry-go-round sequence in Coeur Fidele was considered a “classic” of this cinematic movement.
What is cinematic impressionism?
This first feature film, considered a “succès de scandale” in France, was a big hit in the American Market and a possible remedy to the French film industry's financial crisis.
What is Et Dieu créa la femme? (And God Created Women, 1956)
The French filmmaker Louis Delluc found worthy of the Americans’ artistic mantle.
Who is Marcel L’Herbier?
This impressionist film by L’Herbier criticizes capitalism from a right-wing perspective.
What is L’Argent?
A journalist for L’express magazine coined the term for this style of cinema and storytelling that broke out in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s
What is the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) Movement?
The theater technique Agnès Varda relies on in her debut film, La Pointe-Courte that requires spectator identification from the audience.
What is Brechtian technique?
Widely considered the peak years of cinematic impressionism.
What is 1923 and 1924?
This French director has been critiqued for placing artistic intelligence over empathy within his films.
Who is Jean Epstein?
The Pictorialist Director known for creating "La photogénie mécanique".
Who is "Jean Grémillon?"
A style of French cinema that had prominent women filmmakers garnering artistic and commercial recognition through making women’s issues visible in film.
What is Contemporary French cinema?
The Bordwell constructed model or paradigm of the stylistic means typically employed in cinematic impressionism include these five concepts.
What are close ups, camera movement, optical devices, marked displacement, and nonlinear editing patterns?
This unique aspect of Andre Antoine's theatre revolutionized its content, freeing itself from outside censorship.
What is its "subscription based" format?
Before focusing his life to the arts, Marcel L’Herbier obtained a master’s degree in what?
What is Law?
This 1929 biopic film’s innovative camera techniques served to inspire L’Herbier’s, “L’Argent”, among others.
What is "Napoléon"?
Germaine Dulac found this to be the fundamental problem of most impressionist cinema.
What is dualism?