Postwar Directors
This French director continued to work within set film genres in postwar France with films such as "French Cancan" and "Les Belles de Nuit."
Who is Jean Renoir?
Compared to the radio and journalism industries, purification in the film industry was _.
What is moderate?
This man socialized with high-ranking German officials during the Occupation but was let off with a judgment of “indignité national” as opposed to harsher punishments.
Who is Sacha Guitry?
Pick one: From occupation to liberation, there was more continuity/change.
What is continuity?
This genre features multiple narratives on a given theme, featuring different stars, directors, and designers.
What are sketch films?
This director, returning to France after working in Hollywood, made medium-budget films focusing on themes like the difficulty of sexual control and class relations.
Who is Max Ophuls?
This replaced COIC (Organization Committee for the Cinema Industry).
What is CNC (National Cinema Center)?
This French director was condemned to death for spreading occupier propaganda.
Who is Jean Mamy?
To appeal to the mass market, Tradition of Quality relied on:
What is stardom?
This genre of French cinema focused on psychological thrillers and darker stories, often characterized by generalized mistrust and pessimism.
What is Film Noir?
This French director made notable contributions to the film noir genre during the postwar period.
Who is Henri-Georges Clouzot?
The difference between COIC (Organization Committee for the Cinema Industry) and CNC (National Cinema Center) was _.
What is the stop of restriction of number of films?
This French actress was imprisoned and reprimanded, but eventually released, for her "horizontal collaboration" with a German officer during the Occupation.
Who is Arletty?
This favored Occupation film genre declined in popularity after Liberation.
What is the fantastic?
This genre of French films emerged as a prominent way to assert national or European character through pre-conceived stories.
What is literary adaptation?
These two films were the only collaborations of Garné and Prévert during Occupation.
What are Les Visiteurs du soir (1943) and Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise, 1944)?
List one reason why there was competition with American Cinema.
-US studios had 4 years’ worth of product
-French audiences’ eagerness to watch American films
-Lack of effective government protection
This French actor received ten years of hard labor, had his assets confiscated, and faced "indignité nationale" for his work on enemy radio propaganda broadcasts during the Occupation.
Who is Robert Le Vigan?
List one way Tradition of Quality cinema aimed to meet the American threat.
What is making high-budget films that appeal to the mass market and emphasize Frenchness?
This term critiques productions seen as conventional and out of touch with the New Wave movement.
What is "le cinema de papa”?
This French director journeyed to the USA to work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer but returned to France during the Occupation due to his dislike of American culture.
Who is Claude Autant-Lara?
In order to compete with American cinema, French films needed high budgets. List one strategy used to increase capital:
International coproduction and Subsidies
This actor was imprisoned during the Occupation but later released due to his charitable acts.
Who is Pierre Fresnay?
What was the problem with Tradition of Quality?
It sustained the political, ethical, and creative themes of Occupation filmmaking, which conflicted with the significantly altered postwar France its audience experienced.
This subgenre of films was brought on by films like L'Herbier’s "La Nuit fantastique".
What is a dream-and-reality film?