An aesthetic movement which conveys a sense of "truth" in the image using long takes, depth of field, and documentary-like mise-en-scene.
What is realism?
100
A movement in the 1950s and 60s which relied on documentary filmmaking techniques, self-conscious experimentation, expressive authorship, and political critique to give cinema "new life."
What is the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave?
100
A social and artistic movement which rejected high art elitism and embraced hybrid genres, irony, pop culture, and self-satire as a means of expression.
What is Post-Modernism?
100
The film historian who outlined realism, ambiguity, and authorial expressivity as the three tenets of art cinema.
Who is David Bordwell?
100
Both a "national" director and a "Hollywood director," known for extended takes, choreographed blocking/staging, and character-motivated special effects.
Who is Alfonso Cuaron?
200
A form of filmmaking which purifies cinema of its conventions using self-conscious, abstract, and/or non-narrative experimentation.
What is avant-garde or modernist cinema?
200
A spectrum of regional films which eventually became subsumed under one language and center of production, doubling the US in number of films produced per year.
What is Bollywood, or the Hindi All India film?
200
A global "soft power" phenomenon that created a surge in cultural exports, from music to TV to cinema, beginning in the 1990s and peaking in 2006.
What is Hallyu or the Korean Wave?
200
The influential film journal which resisted a "Tradition of Quality," evaluated directors as auteurs, and spawned a number of young filmmakers who were also critics.
What is Cahiers du Cinema?
200
The team of brothers who modeled their studio after the Hollywood system, and were responsible for bringing kung fu to the US market in 1970s.
Who are the Shaw Brothers?
300
A cinema directly opposed to classical Hollywood-style filmmaking, which often incorporates techniques of realism, subjectivity, and ambiguity.
What is art cinema?
300
A breakaway from "class-bound" traditional cinema and an effort to portray working class individuals on-screen, usually through stories of disillusioned youth and domestic drama?
What is British New Wave cinema and/or Kitchen Sink films?
300
A watershed moment in France, which began with student riots, nation-wide employment strikes, and police intervention and ended with a return to conservatism.
What is May 1968?
300
The "crossover critic" who defined film criticism as "film history" and made a case for film directors to be ranked by their collective body of work.
Who is Andrew Sarris?
300
The former TV director who popularized many music video conventions in his 1964 exploration of musical fame and youth anarchy.
Who is Richard Lester?
400
A theory of filmmaking that foregrounds the director as a film's unifying consciousness and considers his/her body of work to express a unique worldview.
What is auteur theory?
400
A wave of national cinema in the 1960s which interrogated political oppression (specifically Communism) and incompetence through techniques like satire, absurdism, and surrealism.
What is the Czech New Wave?
400
A period of political and artistic liberalization and embrace of democracy in Eastern Europe, halted by Soviet invasion after only 8 months.
What is the Prague Spring?
400
The notion that viewers can derive pleasure from exaggerated, naive, and "un-ironic" spectacles, which denotes a change in taste culture.
What is Camp (Susan Sontag)?
400
A multiple Academy-Award winner who is known for his casting of female leads, his "elegant pop aesthetic," and his mixing of comedy and drama.
Who is Pedro Almodovar?
500
A visual movement that combines commercial design, popular "low-art" forms, and collage aesthetics to comment on contemporary culture.
What is Pop Art?
500
A rejection of postwar commercial and propagandist cinema and a commitment to establishing a new cinematic excellence, guided by a manifesto and reflective of a fragmented national identity.
What is German New Wave cinema (via the Oberhausen Manifesto)?
500
The adoption of more experimental, art cinema techniques in American studio films following the abolishment of the Production Code in 1968.
What is New Hollywood?
500
Cinema as an obsession, religion, and viewing culture largely derived from European art films, which has died out with the rise of new media technologies and viewing platforms.
What is Cinephilia?
500
The exiled filmmaker known for his banned political satires and eventual transition to Hollywood, where he directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).