Purification
American Competition
Styles and Attitudes
Film Noir and New Wave
Returning to France
100
After World War II, these para-judicial bodies were created to prosecute the men and women suspected of collaborating with Germany.
What are comité d'épuration?
100
One of the primary objectives of the Centre National de la Cinématographie was to no longer restrict the number of films produced each year in order to fully engage in competition with ________________________________?
What is the American cinema?
100
This genre, a favorite during the Occupation, experienced an incredibly rapid decline after the war due to a shift in audience’s attitudes.
What is the fantastic (fantasy) genre?
100
With his film Le Corbeau, this director’s sparked the rise of the French film noir genre.
Who is Henri-Georges Clouzot?
100
In part because of C.O.I.C.’s requirement of professional status certification, the postwar industry was largely a “closed shop” demanding that new hires had to have ___________________________________________________.
What is "worked as an assistant director on at least three previous productions”?
200
This judicial punishment, notably applied to Henri-Georges Clouzot for his film Le Corbeau, entailed the loss of civil rights and exclusion from profession either for life or for a limited amount of time.
What is indignité nationale?
200
This “farcically weak” trade agreement, drafted to protect the French film industry from Hollywood, established that individual theaters had to play domestic productions for sixteen weeks out of the year, while the other thirty-six they would be free to play films of any national origin.
What is the Blum-Byrnes Accord (1946)?
200
This filmmaking duo, who were very successful during the Occupation, were eventually forced out of partnership after their postwar collaborations were decidedly out of touch with their audience’s attitudes.
Who are Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert?
200
The idea that “everyone is corrupt” and those that think otherwise are the victims the inherently evil human condition were a part of the stereotypical lessons of the Occupation prominent in this film genre.
What is film noir?
200
After the Occupation ended, many directors that had been popular in the early 1930s returned to France only to be subject to a subtle form of ____________________.
What is "industrial anti-Semitism"?
300
Created after their directors were falsely accused of collaborating with the Germans, these two films were produced as personal reflections on, and as a response to, the Occupation.
What are Sacha Guitry's "Le Diable boîteux" (1948) and Henri-Georges Clouzot's "Manon" (1949)?
300
Within the French film industry’s “Tradition of Quality”, there were two main methods for acquiring capital: ________________________ in which multiple countries pooled resources and ________________________ which determined which projects were worthy of primes à la qualité.
What are international co-production and subsidies?
300
The ______________________ strongly opposed the Tradition of Quality filmmaking because they believed that films of this quality were out of touch with the political, moral, and aesthetic concerns of postwar France.
Who are Les Cahiers du Cinéma?
300
An unusual trend, noted by Alan Williams, observed that the most celebrated and influential filmmakers were _______________________ when they made their greatest contributions to cinema history.
What is all between the ages of 40 and 50 years old?
300
This director was one of the few that returned to France and produced films that surpassed the popularity of his prewar works.
Who is René Clair?
400
The purification of the film industry during the Liberation was moderate in comparison to the extensive cleansing of the _________________ and _________________ industries where “death by firing squad” was a more-or-less common occurrence.
What is radio and journalism?
400
As property belonging to the national heritage and therefore untouchable by Hollywood, ____________________________ were a prominent way of asserting national character against the American film industry.
What are literary adaptations?
400
A product of the Carné/Prévert duo, this film embodied the dream/fantasy genre in as one of the “best-loved works of French cinema” and explored the questions of what reality and love really were.
What is Les Enfants du paradis (1943-44/45)?
400
This individual was unusually declared one of the Top Five French Directors of his time by the Communist-dominated L’Ecran Français despite his willingness to work with German studios during the Occupation.
Who is Christian-Jacque (Christian Maudet)?
400
A major theme in postwar French film culture was the widespread rejection of __________________________, still thought by many to have contributed to the country’s disastrous defeat.
What is prewar filmmaking?
500
The contempt that Henri-Georges Clouzot infused into his postwar film Manon, and that would eventually become a staple in the film noir ideology, was represented by his conviction that France was not free from the evils of the Occupation because ___________________________________________________________.
What is the source of corruption is rooted in human nature?
500
While the onscreen “Tradition of Quality” was focused on star power, the “Tradition of Quality” behind the scenes was dedicated to the ____________________ which had to be pre-planned with little, or preferably, no spontaneity.
What is scriptwriting?
500
Perhaps one flaw of the Tradition of Quality during the period of Liberation was that the French cinema continued to _____________________________ by maintaining the “escapism” that distinguished the films of the Occupation, therefore, losing the ___________________________________ that had characterized films before the war.
What is "avoid contemporary social reality" and "strong sense of contact with everyday life"?
500
Many directors, such as Claude Autant-Lara, were at a disadvantage in their old age because their views were ____________________________________.
What is out of touch with the greatly transformed morals of the youth in postwar France?
500
____________________________ were very important and highly influential in the postwar film industry, often being the reason that filmmakers would either be successful or decline into retirement.
What are Resistance connections?
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