Film Genres
What was considered the splinter movement within a chaotic and often divided film community?
Modernist independent films
What type of films generally functioned as an escape rather than a mirror of contemporary life?
Commercial films
“Un Chien Andalou” was considered one of the last works of what type of films?
Modernist independent films
In which genre was France the favored setting as well as it commenting on contemporary life only through indirection and allegory?
Historical drama
Which film genre suffered because producers were encouraged to cater to specifically French or European tastes because of the competing American film industry?
Comedy