Commercial Break
Independent Modernists
Mix & Match: Directors Edition
White Russian
Don't Lack Dulac
100
Bazin argued that this set of practices served as the stylistic foundation of mainstream commercial cinema.
What is Classical Scene Construction?
100
The modernist impulse developed in a series of distinct phases with the following crucial dividing point.
What is The Great War?
100
This quality allowed filmmakers like René Clair to experiment with multiple styles and subjects giving them an advantage.
What is flexibility?
100
An independent film artist who had little contact with the industry mainstream during the silent era and made a few great works, in splendid isolation and self-absorption.
Who is Dimitri Kirsanov?
100
Germaine Dulac got sent where during her adolescence to study theatre, art, and music with her grandmother?
Where is Paris?
200
Name three relatively distinct options in the shooting and editing of silent cinema.
What are mise-en-scene, montage, and decoupage classique?
200
Cinematic Modernism may best be thought of in this way.
What is as a meeting point between the most radical elements of the French film community and the modernist avant-garde of the other arts?
200
This American Dada artist briefly became a Surrealist filmmaker and was criticized for not being strictly surrealist.
Who is Man Ray?
200
Kirsanov came to France in 1919, at the age of twenty, to study this at the Paris Conservatory, where he first became inspired by the medium of film.
What is the cello?
200
What presumably played some part in Germaine Dulac’s great independence & commitment to causes such as feminism and radical social theory?
What is her privileged financial and cultural position?
300
Germaine Deluc, like many of her peers, held the following belief on her films’ subject matter.
What is the subject matter was less important than the stylistic effects explored?
300
The two most important modernist works of 1924 that initially had little contact with the film community’s celebrations of cinema art.
What are Belle Mecanique and Entr’Acte?
300
This artist's experimental works were criticized for using to many styles of acting and editing in the same film.
Who is Jean Renoir?
300
Ménilmontant’s great success allowed Kirsanov to go on making films, and also helped this person to stay in business as an exhibitor.
Who is Jean Tedesco?
300
Dulac is best known today for this short impressionist narrative?
What is La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet)?
400
This young director demonstrated that there was no hard and fast line of demarcation between mainstream commercial cinema and self-consciously artistIc filmmaking during the silent film’s last decade.
Who is René Clair?
400
One of the earliest French sound films and one of the last works of modernist independent filmmaking.
What is L’Age d’Or (The Age of Gold)?
400
Lager used this to unify diverse images in his films.
What is a limited repertoire of forms and movements?
400
In 1929 Kirsanov made a short lyrical work generally considered his second masterpiece of the silent era, Brumes d’Automne, starring this woman.
Who is Nadia Sibirskaia?
400
What group denounced Dulac for betraying the true spirit of their movement as supposedly in the script La Coquille et le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman)?
Who are the Surrealist?
500
This was the main problem with the commercial and critical disaster, Nana.
What is “the analytic, American-style shooting and editing cuts up the components of the fictional world”?
500
The two directions that the “splinter movement” modernist independent film was to take in the remainder of the 1920s.
What are Pure, abstract cinema and deliberate disunification?
500
Though she never settled into a specific style, Germaine Dulac’s most notable films were made in these three styles.
What are Impressionism, Surrealism and mainstream commercial?
500
Ménilmontant, although certainly not a Surrealist work, it shares with Surrealism not only a fascination with violence and sexuality, but also this.
What are forces that transcend and question the boundaries of individual human consciousness?
500
Although they were often in disagreement with one another, in what ways were Dulac & Delluc similar (name at least 3)?
What is they were both organizers, directors, drawn to the political left, refused to settle down & explore single personal style in their filmmaking?
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