Directors
French film comedy was revived by this director.
Who is René Clair?
This figure was a leading French filmmaker of the early sound era
Who is Jaques Feyder?
These two film styles were the dominating and opposing visions for the development of commercial film in the 1920
What are cinematic impressionism and pictorialist naturalism?
This filmic orientation, named by André Bazin, is translated as either “classical scence construction” or “classic editing.”
What is découpage classique?
Domestic melodramas were on the rise in postwar French silent cinema while this genre’s appeal began to decline in the mid-1920s.
What is serial melodrama?
This director, adept in découpage classique, made comedies, historical dramas, and films outside of genre classification.
Who is Jean Renoir?
This director would go to the cinema up to three times a day after he moved to Paris from Spain and later worked with Salvador Dalí.
Who is Louis Buñuel?
This quality, that involves creating an atmosphere of strangeness and unreality, was achieved by Renoir’s Nana (1926).
What is féerique?
This technological development made découpage classique a norm in French cinema.
What is synchronous sound filmmaking?
Featuring connection between characters and the world they lived in, this was the most commercially significant genre during the silent film’s golden age.
What is historical drama?
This French director was most adept at using découpage/classical scene construction
Who is Henri Fescourt?
Previously a commercial photographer, this American, Dada to Surrealist director accidentally invented the rayograph.
Who is Man Ray?
Clair developed this approach to film, meaning that he imagined his tales and then conceived the means to tell them.
What is the writerly approach?
This is a camera setup where the shot cuts actors off at or near the waist
What is the American shot?
Jacques Feyder’s L’Atlantide (1921) falls into this genre that tells stories of passion and deadly intrigue.
What is exotic costume drama?
This filmmaker and cofounder of D.H. Films was modernist independent film’s most notable public advocate.
Who is Germaine Dulac?
Louis Buñuel, Man Ray, and Fernand Léger belonged to this group of artists who embraced experimental cinema and only wished to continue the live and make art.
Who are the modernist independents?
Modernist independent films – brief and produced cheaply by few hands – were exhibited as, shown as, and screened in these
What are art works in galleries or private shows, part of multi-media spectacles, and specialized art cinemas or ciné-clubs?
Images made by laying objects directly on unprocessed film and exposing it to light are called this
What are Rayographs?
Hyperemotional family dramas of popular boulevard playwrights that owe less of their development to stage melodrama and more to the older French tradition of the drame bourgeois
What is Domestic Melodrama?
This figure’s only film, the Dadaist and cubist Ballet mécanique (1924), focuses on how machinery looks and how its rhythms work, how people can be interpreted as mechanisms, and how the cinema experience is almost mechanical
Who is Ferdinand Léger?
This director began as a cellist in cinema orchestras for money but moved into filmmaking with L’Ironie du destin (1924)
Who is Dimitri Kirsanov?
Surrealist filmmaking typically abstains from using these techniques because they suggest the uncanny rather than creating it
What are optical effects and complex editing?
Renoir used the basic figures of editing but experimented with these expressive techniques.
What are panning, use of offscreen space, and careful composition in depth?
This genre in film is considered the meeting point between the most radical elements of the French film community and the modernist avant-garde of other arts
What is Cinematic modernism?