Thematic Changes
An early period of film history where the general public would go see motion pictures as a sort-of roadside spectacle or fun "magic trick."
What is the Novelty Period of film history?
A 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies.
What is George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
A set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.
What is the MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION CODE AKA the “The Hays Code."
Crime stories focusing on cynicism. Roots in German Expressionism. Extensive use of light and shadow.
What is film noir?
This decade in film history saw the rise of genres such as fantasy, sci-fi, and adventure, as well as a insurgence of sequels, teen movies, and blockbusters.
What is the 1980s?
A 1942 American romantic drama film. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate who must choose between his love for a woman and helping her husband, a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from a Vichy-controlled city to continue his fight against the Germans.
What is Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca?
An English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. Known for making "The Horse in Motion."
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
In its rudimentary form, this theory asserts that a series of connected images allows for complex ideas to be extracted from a sequence and, when strung together, constitute the entirety of a film's ideological and intellectual power. In other words, the editing of shots rather than the content of the shot alone constitutes the force of a film.
What is Russian or Soviet Montage theory?
Films in this period often moved away from happy endings. It was real portraits of real people in messy situations.
What are the thematic changes in 1970s film history?
A 1920 German silent horror film. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a brainwashed somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders.
What is Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?
A film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian film-maker Lev _______ in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
What is the Kuleshov Effect?
Could be crudely described as that which seeks to convey emotional and psychological states, rather than a realistic representation of the world.
What is expressionistic art?
Conflicts more complex, messier. Viewers looked for directors rather than stars. More realistic and fragile characters; still heroes. More believable stories. Less epic, more human. Method acting.
What are characteristics of thematic changes in the 1950s-60s?
A 1948 American psychological crime thriller film, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton.
What is Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope?
This important technological development forever changed filmmaking. 1927's The Jazz Singer is the first of this kind.
What is the transition to "talkies" or the introduction of sound in filmmaking?
A national film movement and film philosophy characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class. They are filmed on location, frequently with non-professional actors. They primarily address the difficult economic and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, representing changes in the Italian psyche and conditions of everyday life, including poverty, oppression, injustice and desperation.
What is Italian Neo-Realism?
A period in the history of film - a really important and kind of problematic one - when film evolved, from a technical curiosity into a powerful visual storytelling machine.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD, 1929-1946
Two movies, produced in 1902 & 1903, respectively, that were influential in the silent film era and in the early stages of the film industry.
What is Georges Melies' A Trip to the Moon and Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery?
Three specific phrases that describe the fundamental beginnings of filmmaking.
What is 1. Filmmaking was stumbled upon, 2. filmmaking is storytelling, and 3. filmmaking started out scientific and later turned into an artform?
An art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconoclasm. These filmmakers explored new approaches to editing, visual style, and narrative, as well as engagement with the social and political upheavals of the era, often making use of irony or exploring existential themes. It is often considered one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema.
What is French New-Wave?