War and Occupation
With the outbreak of war, it had done what to French film production and also to other nonessential industries?
What is it had brought it to a halt?
what is C.O.I.C short for?
What is the Comité d'Organisation de l'Industrie Cinématographique (organization comittee for the cinema industry)?
What film from 1943 depicts anonymous letters and suspicion, mirroring the paranoia of occupied France, and continued theme of distrust.
What is Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943)?
This film by Pagnol was about a father who disowned his pregnant daughter, until her lover who was presumed lost in the fighting comes back and marries her.
What is La Fille du Puisatier (The Well Digger's Daughter, 1940)?
During the Occupation, evil could be depicted as many things, even going as extreme as to be depicted as the devil itself; evil characters were often interpreted as being ....
What is representative of Germany?
Because of ___'s disastrous effect on the nation's cinema before, very soon filmmaking activity was allowed to resume with actors, directors, and technicians coming from the front.
What is the First World War?
At this time period and with the help of C.O.I.C, it was very clear that the first priority of the entire film industry was what?
What is financial survival?
Filmmakers used symbolism and storytelling to show this in their films without directly making statements of it.
What is resistance?
Goebbels reviewed this Continental Productions film, stating it was excellent quality but "amounts to a first class national fanfare", and refused to release it to be viewed in Germany.
What is La Symphonie Fantastique (The Fantastic Symphony, 1942)?
This is the reason some historians and experts say that Germany allowed French films to compete against German films in the global context during the occupation. (2 reasons)
What is in order to take advantage of the quality and skills to break into the global market and in turn eventually make German film the leader in the world, as well as to compete with American Film industries and markets.
Even before the war, the industry was in such a sorry state that this producer's operation was one of the country's most stable and successful production companies?
Who is Marcel Pagnol?
Although C.O.I.C. is said to have been the one to rescue the French film industry from near-collapse, they implemented a new law that barred hundreds of people that were from this community?
What are Jews/what is the French Jewish Community?
Symbolism was used in films such as Les Visiteurs du Soir to emphasize this type of feeling or "obsession" of occupation cinema which was shown in multiple films of the period.
What is Immobility?
This film led to the punishment of production teams involved in making it, and was about a town which was torn apart by anger, suspicion, jealousy, and eventually a murder.
What is Le Corbeau (The Raven, 1943)?
Before becoming the most powerful film producer in occupied France, this producer was a respected figure in German cinema and had served as head of production for the independent Terra film company.
Who is Alfred Greven?
Why during this time was Marcel Pagnol the only producer in a position to work on a film with the line of demarcation?
C.O.I.C established yearly quotas for feature films; it prohibited double-feature exhibition and established other quotas to insure what two things?
What is to insure the correct number of short subjects necessary to complete the exhibitors programs and it helped assure that enough film stock could be had for each production.
Occupation films (scripts, really) often strayed from a type of dialogue that modeled every day speaking and became more literary, described with these two terms.
What is Poetic and Declamatory?
This film by Gremilllon was revered as "triumphant" in French Cinemas, even though it did not do as well in theatres as Le Corbeau, and attracted much smaller audiences.
What is Le Ciel est a Vous (The Sky is Yours, 1944)?
Continental was a carefully crafted result of this process where businesses owned by Jews were sold at a fraction of their value to "pure" buyers.
What is Aryanization?
The book mentions that there had been debates on what could have stabilized the industry but the film industry was victim of both ___ & ___?
What is parliamentary indecisiveness and its own divisions (the rifts between foreign and domestic producers and between management and labor)?
What German Company was exempt both from Vichy oversight and from C.O.I.C's regulations and quotas, and mostly untouched by military censorship?
What is Continental?
L'Ecran Français interpreted Le Corbeau as a metaphorical attack on this society, because they assumed all important films would comment in one regard about contemporary social reality, indirectly.
What is French Society?
Occupation mystery films were generally light and comic, for instance Clouzot's earlier work before Le Corbeau which was this film.
What is L'Assassin Habite Au 21 (The Murderer Lives at Number 21, 1942)
This was the opinion of Joseph Goebbels, that the conquered country was "(two words)" and deserved only "(blank, blank and if possible blank pictures).
What is
1. hopelessly corrupt
2. "Light, frothy, and if possible, corny pictures"