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This is the theory that each country with a film industry boasts an identifiable set of aesthetics, forms, and philosophical or ideological preoccupations

National cinema

100
Knock

Nosferatu

100

Dario Argento

Suspiria

100

wtf I love the Midsommar Cinematic Universe now

The Wicker Man

100

In 1917, Erich Ludendorff created the UFA to produce propaganda films for which country?

Germany

200

This is a theory that looks exclusively at cinematic forms as the source of meaning in films

Radical Formalism

200

Alice

Lake Mungo

200

Hideo Nakata

Ringu

200

it's just a dude in a hat

The Babadook

200

Glauber Rocha discusses three kinds of aesthetics in Latin American cinema: the aesthetics of hunger, the aesthetics of violence, and what third aesthetic?

The aesthetics of dreaming

300

This branch of theory looks at emotions and vibes

Affect theory

300

Junco

Pulse

300

Jennifer Kent

The Babadook

300

Puppets are scary

The Wolf House

300

Futurist cinema, the oldest European avant-garde style that depicts modernity as the key to liberating the state from the past, originated in which country?

Italy

400

Fernando Solanos and Octavio Getino started this film movement in the 1950s and 1960s in Latin America that is aimed at making films that critique neocolonialism, capitalism, and the Hollywood industry

Third Cinema

400

Alma

La Llorona

400

Robin Hardy

The Wicker Man

400

the derry children if they were dumber

Achoura

400

In the silent era of cinema in Japan, what was the job of the benshi?

Narrating silent films

500

The marvelous, the perverse, the grotesque, the malevolent, and the pathological are all key features of which literary movement that has become a style of horror?

The gothic

500

Joy

Juju Stories

500

Abba Makama

Juju Stories ("Yam")

500

worst birthday ever


Train to Busan

500

Great Britain practiced this form of colonization, in which the day-to-day government and administration were left in the hands of colonized domestic rulers protected under Pax Brittanica

Indirect rule

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