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What is one of the most impressionist films ever made?
What is El Dorado
100
Unfortunately for L'Herbier and the financial health of Cinégraphique, his production company, this film did very poorly at the box office, despite the presence of the popular Russian actor Ican Mosjoukine in the title role.
What is Feu Mathias Pascal.
100
The label "impressionist" was first employed in print by who?
Who is Germaine Dulac.
100
This is known as the final flowering of the French aristocracy.
What is la belle époque?
100
This director is considered possibly the most thoroughly nineteenth century figure in the history of French cinema.
Who is André Antoine.
200
Leon Poirier made this movie, which was inspired by the famous Roudin statue?
What is Le Penseur (1920).
200
Russians filmmakers had many enthusiastic French supporters, including perhaps most notably ...
Who is Louis Delluc.
200
Dulac was one of this movement's most articulate members.
What is impressionism.
200
Cinematic impressionism as a cultural phenomenon had what symbolic interactionist theorists called this, which was far out of proportion to its physical reality.
What is "social reality"?
200
André Antoine’s subscription-only theater season by this name ensured freedom of interference from government censorship.
What is the Théatre-Libre.
300
What film by L’Herbier was a combination of fin-de-siecle symbolism and nationalist propaganda?
What is Rose-France (1919).
300
Russia had a healthy, if relatively small film industry before this establishment.
What is the Soviet state.
300
What is arguably the period's most important secondary trend or artistic focus?
What is pictorialist naturalism
300
At the age of 20, Marcel finish this degree, which served as a ‘bourgeois credential’.
What is his maîtrise in law?
300
This director owned a production company by the name of Cinégraphic.
Who is L’Herbier.
400
Which two filmmakers created over 1,000 french fiction feature titles from 1919-1929?
Who are Raymond Chirat and Roger Icart.
400
Russians came to France and adopted this cinematic style.
What is impressionism.
400
What was the solution that Dulac envisions for the dichotomy of reality and impressions?
What is cinematic rhythm.
400
This author had written of the culte du moi, which defined the “self” as a multiple, shifting and finally theatrical construct.
Who is Maurice Barrés?
400
This director’s work was criticized for its reliance on artistic intelligence at the expense of any real emotion.
Who is Epstein.
500
Which movie, containing extreme visual naturalism, by Antoine, was named for the story’s two barges?
What is L’Hirondelle et la Mesange (1920).
500
Considered the peak years of cinematic impressionism as a movement.
What is 1923 and 1924.
500
Bordwell constructed a model or paradigm of the stylistic means typically employed in cinematic impressionism. List three of the five.
1) close-ups 2) camera movement 3) optical devices 4) marked displacement within the visual field 5) nonlinear editing patterns
500
These classic values of the bourgeoisie were rejected by L’Herbier.
What are comfort, tradition, the juste milieu.
500
André Antoine did this simple act that was both a revelation and the beginning of an aesthetic revolution. Hint: it involved the fourth wall.
He turned his back on the audience.
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