Events
The Russian filmmakers’ efforts in France hit their peak alongside cinematic impressionism between these years.
What is 1923 and 1924?
Character subjectivity such as the rapid, rhythmic editing conventionally employed to convey drunkeness, illness, and fits of insanity became a thing in which film and what year?
Gance’s La Roue in 1922
According to the creator of the genre Andre Antoine, cinema should find its subjects here.
Significant works of drama or fiction, such as Victor Hugo, Alphonse Daudet, Zola, and Henry Bernstein.
Who was the first person to ever use the term “impressionist” in print (1926)?
Germaine Dulac
Germaine Dulac argued that until the 1920s French cinema had been dominated by what works?
Realist
What led members of the old Russian film industry to flee into Paris?
The Russian Revolution of 1917
Aside from L’Herbier, Gance, and Delluc who else contributed to the movement of cinematic impressionists?
Who is Jean Epstein and Germaine Dulac?
This director’s films titled Maldone and Gardiens de phare were considered the culmination of the genre.
Jean Grémillon
Rejected the traditional artifice of the French stage with his “free theatre” program in 1887. The man most directly responsible for the pictorialist naturalist trend was who?
Andre Antoine
What was the most significant artistic trend in 1920’s French Film?
Cinematic Impressionism
How many domestic production and distribution companies were there by 1916?
What is 164?
Why were the impressionist filmmakers interested in feeling states?
They thought that selves were shifting, contradictory phenomena.
When Andre Antoine did this on stage, it signaled the beginning of the aesthetic revolution of pictorialist naturalism.
Turned his back to the audience
Directed Man of the Sea, El Dorado, Feu Mathias Pascal, and L’Argent. An impressionist who started his career with the army, followed by Gaumont. Later had his own studio.
Marcel L’Herbier
Germaine Dulac believed that the next movement to follow the Impressionist Movement would be what?
Abstract/Pure
What film demonstrated that cinematic impressionism within the commercial narrative cinema of the late 1920’s had become problematic and potentially unstable?
L’Argent in 1928
In the film Kean by Edmund Kean there are 3 kinds of sequences. What are those 3 kinds of sequences?
What is narrative scenes, theatrical performances, and bravura sequences of “impressionist” fireworks?
Antoine preferred location shooting over using a studio because he insisted on this in his films.
Visual authenticity
The last of the great early cinema pictorialists to enter the French film industry. First feature film was Maldone. Part of the pictorialist naturalist movement. Who was ……?
Jean Gremillon
“Free theatre” was significant because why?
Rejected traditional artifice of the French stage, actors spoke and acted naturally, actors did not play to the audience.
What were the major effects of the Russian coup d’etat by the Bolsheviks in 1917?
Private property was abolished, Film moved south (out of Moscow), Civil War between the Bolsheviks and anti-Bolsheviks, and mass exodus of Russians from Russia (many coming to Paris).
Maurice Barrès wrote about the culte du moi (cult of the self). What exactly did he mean by the word “self”?
He meant self as a multiple, shifting, finally theatrical construct.
Many young directors, though not dedicated to the genre, found it somewhat easier to make the occasional pictorialist naturalist film due to this circumstance.
Most films were produced by companies that did not own studio facilities, pushing them toward the preferred pictorialist naturalist method of location shooting.
Whose career clearly expressed Cinematic impressionism as temptations of idealism and of pictorialist naturalism as simple materialism? (He was the first generation for which filmgoing was a fact of life. Also hated rapid editing)
Jean Epstein
Cinematic impressionism saw its demise primarily due to this.
The coming of sound.