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This directors films are often used as examples for an attempt at countercinema and relentlessly critiquing dominant cinema practices.
Jean-Luc Godard
Godard’s first feature, _______, celebrated “jump cuts” and was widely greeted as a truly revolutionary film that culminated the Nouvelle Vague rejection of the cinema de papa.
A Bout De Souffle/ Breathless
Godard used this technique in A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) to make it commercially exploitable.
Jump cuts
Increasing radicalization of large numbers in French society began where?
Universities
After Godard’s use what became something of a cinematic cliche in the 1960s.
The Jump Cut
Viewed cinema as a means of political agitation, committed to left issues this person was denounced by the left for perpetuating bourgeois cinema.
Marin Karmitz
Nelly Kaplan’s first feature film, ________, seems to imply that women should not reject sexual objection but rather use it to their advantage.
La fiancée du pirat/ A Very Curious Girl
After May 1968, Karmitz’s Coup pour Coup (Blow for Blow), Malle’s Humain, trop Humain (Human, too Human), and Godard’s Tout va bien (Everything’s ok) all addressed…
The sociopolitical situation of factory workers
Dissolution of traditional values, the French class system, and the transformation of French life which had not reached the education system lead to what period of unrest/event?
1968 protests
What impact did the successful use of the jump cut have on Godard’s films?
He migrated this technique into his soundtracks.
Leader of France who nearly abolished censorship in film. Leading to a new network of X-rated films and producers.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
This film contains many allusions to the Vietnam War -- focusing on the Americanization of French economic and cultural life, and the growing consumerism of the middle and working classes.
Deux Ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D’elle/ Two Or Three Things I Know About Her
When it comes to American audiovisual products, what are French producers afraid of?
Diminish the revenues of domestic production & undermine France’s film and TV industry
The _______ and _______ were periods of low birth rates, followed by higher ones after the _______, leading to 1 in 3 French citizens being under age 20.
1930s, Occupation, Liberation
What impact if any did his education and traditional realist film style have on Godard’s works?
His Characters typically seek precisely the coherent selfhood and sense of mastery which contemporary film imputes to traditional narrative cinema.
______ implied that women should not reject sexual objectification but rather use it to their advantage.
Nelly Kaplan
A New Wave-style drama of adolescence featuring a cast of nonprofessional players.
L'enfance nue/ Naked Childhood
Giscard’s election in 1974, anabled producers to be _______ ________ because of ________ __ ______________.
Sexually explicit, abolition of censorship
The events of May 1968 lead to a similar disruption in the film industry. This affected in particular what well known cinematic event?
Cannes Film Festival
Why did Godard begin to reject the American mass culture that he once had been fascinated with?
The Vietnam war shed light on the United States politics and culture. American Imperialism ceased to be an abstract concept.
Their first film won the Prix Louis Delluc and is regarded as a talented director but “more of an observer than a revolutionary.
Diane Kurry
This film took a giant, unashamed step backward in film history, to the days of Tradition of Quality.
Sous le soleil de Satan/ Under Satan’s sun (1989)
One surprising element that came about with the television generation is the ____ _ _______ _________ & _______who brought ______ ________ which are highly present in contemporary French cinema.
Rise of women filmmakers & writers, women issues
The Cahiers du Cinema, following the unrest of May 1968, eventually published under what philosophy? This ideology later spread through the UK and the US.
Marxist-Leninist (or Maoist)
In what 3ways did the events of May 1968 affect the film community?
Film Journalism, Teaching, and academic study of cinema.