A subgenre of film that was popular during La Nouvelle Vague, often one of their non-fiction films to start their careers.
What are documentaries?
100
While Alain Resnais’ focus is on montage and editing, ____ is obsessed with duration.
Who is Jacques Rivette
100
The name of the french filmmaking period that came directly before the Nouvelle Vague (also referred to as "cinéma de papa")
What is the Tradition of Quality?
100
Varda's amateur film was denied commercial distribution as a result of a lack of this organizations commencement authorization.
What is the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)?
100
Alain Resnais would prefer to collaborate with them instead of film critics.
Who are literary figures
200
Jean Rouch, Alain Resnais, Jacques Demy
Who were some major contributors to documentaries of the era?
200
This rive gouge filmmaker dealt with anxiety and depression. His films feature such experiences.
Who is George Franju
200
A notable source of supplementary funding for most short subject nonfiction films was ________.
What is institutional sponsorship?
200
Opposite to Melevilles "Bob le Flambeur" being unappreciated as a result of being too familiar is _________ for being original and innocent.
What is Angès Varda's "La Pointe-Courte"?
200
Since his cinema wasn’t accessible to mainstream audiences, it served as an exploration of his literary practice.
Who is Alain Robbe-Grillet
300
This was done through assistance from museums, the government, and for a time, the German occupation.
How were documentaries financed?
300
She sees cinema as an instrument of social control, and rejects commercial cinema.
Who is Marguerite Duras
300
Successful nonfiction filmmakers had a lot of freedom when creating their short subject films because _____.
What is: their sponsors liked seeing the works they funded receiving critical acclaim in Cahiers du Cinéma and other publications.
300
La Pointe-Courte borrows this from literature, however it also resembles that of theater.
What is Brechtian "Distanciation" Techniques?
300
Groups included communists, union leaders, and the major film industry.
What are groups that did not fully accept La Nouvelle Vague?
400
Differences between these two include age gap, film budget, and independent films.
What are differences between Left Bank School and Cahiers du Cinéma?
400
Unlike his colleague, Jacques Rivette (who's work seems frustratingly uneven and unpolished), ____ produced stunning uniformity of subject matter.
Who is Eric Rohmer
400
The prevalence of short subjects and the encouragement to innovate within them came from these roots.
What is the German Occupation? (Specifically, when C.O.I.C. required all cinémas to show at least 1 short subject with every feature)
400
Varda was associated with _________ through the means of Friendship, Marriage, and Professional Collaboration however she was not a member.
What is the Cahiers du Cinéma?
400
_________ were awarded by a jury and supplemented whatever income the films earned in the recently deregulated market.
What is primes à la qualité (bonuses for quality)?
500
Nuit et Brouillard, Hiroshima Mon Amour, La Pointe Court, ect
What are some Nouvelle Vague documentaries?
500
His cinema is said to be a cinema of time and memory, but also a cinema of comparisons and juxtaposition.
What is The cinema of Alain Resnais
500
The notable alternative fiction filmmaking of the New Wave period owes itself to _______.
What is: the flowering of the nonfiction French cinema in the 1940's and 50's under government and institutional sponsorship.
500
Varda's interest in making "Films à Thèse", being constructed to pose questions without actually solving them is a _________.
What is a tactic for inciting an audience to solve and judge the posed questions?
500
This 1951 film by Franju was a blatant subversion of the film's original intent (set by the sponsor), subtly suggesting the horror of warfare instead of celebrating the subject material (a war museum).