Dates and Events
By this time, the French cinema was awash with stories of virtuous wives, domineering husbands, unscrupulous blackmailers, children falsely accused of heinous crimes, and so on.
What is the end of the 1920’s?
What wasn’t featured in a film to encourage people to see it?
Social and political issues
This American director extensively explored the montage tradition.
D.W. Griffith
Dulac’s best known film that tells the story of a “bored, petty bourgeois wife.”
What is The Smiling Mme. Beudet?
Which genre was commercially significant exerted on the industry’s tendency to repeat itself?
Historical Drama
At the end of the war, Renoir did (or did not do..) this
What is he did not immediately rush into filmmaking?
Turning your ordinary feature film into a high demand National Event required what?
A plot based on a well-known historical figure. (Joan of Arc, Napoleon)
In 1924, he made his only film (a modernist work) in collaboration with this filmmaker.
Who is Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy (Ballet Mécanique)?
Cycles of repetition and variation in films.
What are Genres?
Renoir’s disaster with Nana pushed him to create what two types of films?
Mainstream commercial on one hand and ciné-club on the other
French cinema of the 1920’s was remarkably this.
What is diverse?
How did filmmakers view the recent victory over Germany, though costly in lives?
Positive, because France’s triumph and the new subject matter to create and sell movies on.
Not of long duration with possibilities of being quickly exhausted were Pre-war features of who?
Léonce Perret
The orientation of a film where the change of an image appears as a kind of natural response to the fiction.
What is découpage classique? (Classical scene construction)
In the mid 1920s the French struggled to develop this genre.
What is film comedy?
The year 1923 marked another important beginning with this.
A number of highly visible programs of short artistic films, mainly excerpts from commercial features?
What damaged France’s power as top film producer?
The collapse of it’s vertically integrated film industry
Orson Welles’ early films established what?
The respect for the integrity of the shot in the celebrated long takes.
The “monster hit” of exotic costume drama.
What is L’Atlantide (Feyder, 1921)?
When Jean Renoir was exploring the diverse possibilities in the late silent era, he “flirted” with both of these styles.
What is impressionist and pictorialist styles?
This is the year and film from which Dulac became a note-worthy presence in the industry, when she had her first sustained opportunity to experiment with the cinema’s expressive possibilities.
1918 Ames de fous?
Incorporating these concepts into your movie would guarantee success in 1920’s French cinema
French colonial aspirations and the desire to idealize the French empire
The meeting of Surrealism and the cinema was to spark a life’s involvement with the medium for who?
Who is Luis Buñuel?
These new genres emerged in the 1920’s commercial cinema.
What are “drame bourgeois”, exotic costume drama and historical drama?
Marcel Duchamp, assisted by the American artist Man Ray, attempted this type of film, only to have a few frames of that work survive a primitive, homemade developing process.
What is a stereoscopic film?