Film Genres
What was considered the splinter movement within a chaotic and often divided film community?
Modernist independent films
What service was Clair declared fit for in 1916, resulting in him losing his boyhood friend?
Military service
Of the three popular shooting techniques in the 1920s, what is the oldest one in which the action it depicts continues until formal or narrative closure and who popularized it?
integrity of the shot, Louis Lumiere
Which type of movies did Jean Renoir make?
Comedies and historical dramas.
This filmmaker worked as a journalist for L'Intransigent
René Clair
What type of films generally functioned as an escape rather than a mirror of contemporary life?
Commercial films
What genre of films was Clair making with the field almost to himself?
Comic films
What is the editing in which action is interrupted by another action and/or situation from another space and who popularized it?
Montage, D.W. Griffith
Which film made Jean Renoir believe French films can be good?
Le Brasier ardent.
This Filmmaker's third film was viewed as a commercial and critical disaster due to the usage of different acting styles
Jean Renoir
“Un Chien Andalou” was considered one of the last works of what type of films?
Modernist independent films
What type of approach did Clair develop to the film medium, first imagining his tales and then conceiving the means to tell them?
Writerly approach
Which stylistic rule states, "one must use only those stylistic devices necessary to a particular scene"
Ockham's Razor
What is one reason as to why Renoir pursued filmmaking?
To help make his wife Catherine Hessling a movie star.
In which genre was France the favored setting as well as it commenting on contemporary life only through indirection and allegory?
Historical drama
Which film marked the end for the silent period and Clair's flirtation with the fantastic?
Le Voyage imaginaire (The Imaginary Voyage)
Jean Renoir used both of these stylistic techniques to make films for large audiences.
Impressionist and Pictorialist
Where did Renoir and Jean Tedesco shoot the film La Petite Marchande d'allumettes?
Filmed in a small studio in the attic of a cinema.
This independent film artist created great works without the complete influence of mainstream media and produced a film where his "poetics" showcased violence and degradation
Dimitri Kirsanov
Which film genre suffered because producers were encouraged to cater to specifically French or European tastes because of the competing American film industry?
Comedy
What's the name of the film that came to Clair as he looked out over a deserted city and involves a mad scientist with a device capable of immobilizing all life?
Paris qui dort/The Crazy Ray
What stylistic choices made Clair's work different than radical filmmakers of the time?
Clair appealed to the mainstream, used cinematic tricks/devices sparingly, and included comedy into his films.
What experience did Jean Renoir utilize for his film La Grande Illusion?
Aerial reconnaissance.
This Filmmaker intended to produce a surreal fictional world by utilizing methods of editing that were less exploited in France yet common in American Film
Luis Buñuel