Quality Cinema
The kind of cinema which emerged largely as a result of the strategies of the C.N.C. and other organizations of the time.
What is Tradition of Quality?
Allied Forces landed on the beaches of Normandy on this day.
What is D-day, June 6th, 1944?
A self-financing government agency with an administrative committee composed of members of the government and representatives of the various levels of the film industry
What is the Centre National de la Cinématographie (C.N.C)?
Life in contemporary France tended to come to the foreground chiefly in this genre (called the “spiritual and stylistic descendants of Le Corbeau”).
What is Psychological thriller, or French film noir?
The most reliable means of attaining the high box-office revenues required to repay the large investments in quality works.
What are *Stars*?
One extremely prominent way for Quality cinema to assert national or European character.
What is Literary Adaptation?
The process carried out during the reconstruction of the French nation after the German Occupation.
What was l'Épuration (purification or purge)?
The Centre National de la Cinématographie (C.N.C.) was created on this date.
When was October 25, 1946?
The cinema of quality was never able to fully realize this aspect that strongly characterized the cinema of the 1930s.
What is a sense of contact with everyday life?
Quality actress who was revered for her body and the illustrious costumes she wore in films, often created by her own personal designer to accentuate her figure.
Who is Martine Carol?
If onscreen the Tradition of Quality was most visibly about stardom, behind the scenes it depended primarily on this.
What is the script?
Specially created sanction of the Épuration that entailed the loss of civil rights and exclusion from business and most professions.
What was l'Indignité nationale (national disgrace or disgrace in the eyes of the nation)?
Film featuring one or more major players, sequences, or sometimes entire narratives set in this country were extremely abundant from the late 1940s onward.
What is Italy?
One of the most notable changes between the cinema of the Occupation and postwar cinema was the rapid decline of this favored subject during the Occupation.
What is The fantastic?
The only returnee in postwar France widely thought to have equaled, or even surpassed, the level of his prewar work.
Who is René Clair?
Special financial designation given to projects deemed worthy by the C.N.C.
What are Primes à la qualité (bonuses for quality)?
Evolved from modest beginnings as one of countless Vichy youth groups to the film school envisioned by industry reformers since the mid-1930s.
What is l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques (I.D.H.E.C)?
A 1946 trade agreement between France and the U.S. that said individual theaters in France had to play domestic productions for 16 weeks out of each year, but for the other 36 weeks they were free choose films from any international origin.
What is The Blum-Byrnes accord?
Another fairly reliable way to achieve high box-office revenues that included packing together 3 or more short film narratives on a given theme, typically with different stars, directors, and designers.
What are “sketch films”?
Director who took on his mother's stage name to "emphasize his bond with...the performing arts". He worked under multiple great directors due to his involvement with productions from age 16.
Who is Claude Autant-Lara?
Since American films had the appeal of exoticism, Quality cinema tried to compete with overseas productions through large-scale budgets and an emphasis on this aspect of its films.
What is their “Frenchness”?
The major task of the Committee for the Liberation of French Cinema was to make regulatory systems more in line with the democratic values of the new republic, meaning, above all, giving a voice to these two groups.
What were labor and craft unions?
One of the main changes from C.O.I.C. policy that the C.N.C. enacted.
It no longer sought to restrict the number of films made per year.
According to the text, these two aspects of film noir seem to make the genre “tick”.
What is Generalized mistrust and facile pessimism?
French actress that was placed under house arrest for many months before her case was heard by the National Purge Committee of Dramatic and Musical Performers and Performing Musicians for engaging in “horizontal collaboration” with a German officer.
Who is Arletty?