Épuration
After Liberation
Post-War
Occupation Cinema
French Film Style
100
This entailed loss of civil rights and exclusion from business and most professions, either for life or a limited period of time.
What is indignité nationale?
100
This organization continued to control French cinema in much the same way as C.O.I.C. had, through essentially the same regulatory mechanisms.
What is the Centre National de la Cinématographie (National Cinema Center)?
100
The industry’s lack of resources, uncertain market and large qualified personnel were facilitated by this arrangement.
what is Blum-Byrnes accords
100
The French psychological thrillers that emerged in the 1930s were known as…
What is Film noir
100
This person, who remained an isolated figure, was a highly visible presence in the Tradition of Quality.
Who is Henri-Georges Clouzot?
200
The Committee for the Liberation of French Cinema’s greatest quarrel was with this director because of his scandalous Le Corbeau.
Who is Henri-Georges Clouzot?
200
This kind of cinema which emerged after the Liberation strived to produce films that could match the best American productions both technically and materially; it continued to produce the same sort of nationalistic costume dramas that had flourished during the Occupation.
What is the Tradition of Quality?
200
This famous director represented the “traditional” values of the well-made film. He consciously recognized his role as symbol and spokesman for the old-school cinema against the New-Wave; and became the 1st elected filmmaker to the Académie Française for his work in the medium.
who is Rene Clair
200
The film that followed the lives of young people attempting to find their way after war, which was increasingly dominated by Americanized postwar European culture was…
What is Le Rouge et le Noir
200
“Everyone is corrupt, unless they are only stupid…” is one of the supposed lessons represented in this type of French film.
What is French film noir?
300
In this film Guitry plays Talleyrand in what is probably his most successful plea to his beloved public for understanding and sympathy.
What is Le Diable boîteux (The Limping Devil)?
300
With the Liberation these films began to inundate the French market.
What are Hollywood films?
300
What three things do Max Ophuls and Pierre Chenal have in common?
Jewish, had secure positions in prewar cinema, and produced films in the Americas
300
André Cayatte’s metacinematic variation of this screenplay led to the creation of Les Amants de Verone.
What is Romeo and Juliet
300
This film was criticized as “the first really conclusive example of the ‘French Style’ which was to crystallize, then to flower, during these first four years of misery”.
What is Le Mariage de Chiffon?
400
This film by Clouzot displays contempt for his critics’ hypocritical refusal to admit that the evils of the Occupation years had not ceased when France was “free” because corruption has its roots in human nature.
What is Manon?
400
Mainstream postwar filmmaking depended upon this to an unprecedented degree.
What is stardom?
400
This archetypal figure’s acting career was restored by which of Chenal’s films?
Eric Von Stroheim, La Foire aux Chimères/The Devil and the Angel
400
Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert collaborated on these two films before their downfall after Occupation cinema.
What Les Visiteurs du soir et Le Enfants du paradis
400
The ultimate French non-auteur director was the continental equivalent of Michael Curtiz in the American Cinema.
Who is Christian-Jacque?
500
Though arrests and convictions were comparatively rare in the film industry, this director was sentenced to death for having denounced members of a clandestine labor organization to the occupiers.
Who is Jean Mamy?
500
Behind the scenes, the Tradition of Quality depended principally on the craft of these people.
Who are the scriptwriters?
500
1950’s most notorious commercial failure____________ caused its principal producer ____________, immediate bankruptcy.
what are Lola Montès, and Gamma Films
500
At the level of film genre, the most notable change was the Occupation’s favored subject: the fantastic. The fantastic consisted of five elements as described through the text, NAME ONE.
What is Ghost stories, prophetic dreams, devils, demons, and/or love potions.
500
This film represented the Tradition of Quality and is subtly and solidly constructive all at once.
What is Nana?
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