French New Wave
Post WWII Film
Colonial Encounters
Auteurs
Cinema by Numbers
100

Cleo from 5 to 7 shows political protests against this contemporary conflict that France was involved in

What is the Algerian War of Independence

100

Italian neorealism had a thematic interest in representing the lives of these groups of people

Who are the poor and working class?

100

According to Ezra, In Cleo from 5 to 7, Varda uses this motif to suggest how "cultural commodification finds its parallel [to how] Cléo herself is packaged and sold to the public spectacle."

What are masks?

100

This recently deceased New Wave director makes an appearance in the film within the film in Cleo from 5 to 7?

Who is Jean-Luc Godard?

100

Solanas and Gettino's essay "Towards a Third Cinema," takes the form of this genre of stark political writing

What is a manifesto?

200
These are some of the stylistic characteristics associated with the French New Wave

What are on location shooting, nonlinear narratives, handheld cameras

200

According to Daisuke Miyao, Ozu uses these particular motifs to comment on the flows and movements of everyday life

What are clocks and watches?

200

Moffat uses this aural (audio) technique in Nice Colored Girls often found in documentary films about colonial subjects

What is voiceover narration?

200

Auteur theory suggests we can view this particular form of expression by looking at the body of creative works of a director over time

What is style?

200

According to Ning Ma, a tension between "an attempt at realism and an obsession with symbolic expression" characterizes this wave of mainland Chinese cinema

What is Fifth Generation Cinema?

300

In Cleo from 5 to 7, Agnes Varda redirects and challenges this particular circuit of looks between the characters, the camera, and the viewer

What is the male gaze?

300

This leader brought Italy under authoritarian fascist rule for several decades before it was overthrown after WWII

Who is Benito Mussolini?

300

According to Langford, the opening sequence of Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl filmed in color presents a parody of this type of film that featured colonial landscapes

What is a travelogue?

300
This is what Solanas and Getino called cinema produced by individual auteurs

What is second cinema?

300

Indigenous filmmakers like Barry Barclay thought that Fourth Cinema should include and respect the presence of these communal members

Who are children and the elderly?

400

Agnes Varda expresses in her films this famous thinker's critique of sexist practices found in mainstream films 10 years before the thinker made the term popular in the essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"

Who is Laura Mulvey?

400

One of the defining characteristics of Italian neorealism's approach to authentic everyday life included the use of this type of actor

Who are nonprofessional actors?

400

These are some of the reasons Frank Ukadide thought prevented the development and flourishing of African Cinema 

What are Hollywood dominance, restrictions on funding, lack of material and technological resources

400

This French film critic believed that the "fundamental humanism of the [then] current Italian films" was their chief merit

Who is Andre Bazin?

400

This was the name Solanas and Getino gave to the films produced by dominant institutions like Hollywood

What is first cinema?

500

Flitterman-Lewis argues this scene in Cleo from 5 to 7 full of "signifiers of loss" illustrates the beginning of Cleo's transformation from "narcissistic enclosure" to "necessary intersubjectivity"

What is the rehearsal scene, the song Cri d'amour?

500

This screenwriter and critic had some ideas about the cinema reflected in neorealist work, including the idea that "The cinema’s overwhelming desire to see, to analyse, its hunger for reality, is an act of concrete homage towards other people, towards what is happening and existing in the world."

Who is Cesare Zavattini?

500

Filmmakers like Tracey Moffat sought to reverse this form of looking that positioned indigenous people as the object of anthropological inquiry and control

What is the ethnographic gaze?

500

This close to eye-level camera position is said to characterize the work of Yasujiro Ozu

What is a tatami shot?

500

This type of filmmaking, argue Solanas and Getino, "proletarianises the film worker and breaks down the intellectual aristocracy that the bourgeoisie grants to its followers. In a word, it democratises"

What is guerrilla filmmaking?