Germaine Dulac is the most notable public advocate of the _________ trend and was also one of the period’s most successful commercial filmmakers.
What is modernist independent film?
100
Most commercially significant genre with some sense of connection between the characters and the larger world in which they lived.
What is the historical genre?
100
Cinema was one of the last arts to be explored by postwar ________.
What is modernism?
100
A surrealist director and the mind behind Un Chien andalou.
Who is Luis Bunuel?
100
Also known as classic scene construction, and served as a mainstream foundation for editing.
What is decoupage classique?
200
Dulac is best known today for her short impressionist narrative in 1923 called _________.
What is La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet)?
200
These works told stories of fierce passion and deadly intrigue, generally involving affairs of state and set either in mythical foreign lands or in real places treated as if they were mythic.
What is exotic costume drama?
200
Jean Tedesco opened the first of the Parisian art houses, which was called ________.
What is Vieux-Colombier?
200
An American artist known for Le Retour a la raison (The Return to Reason).
Who is Man Ray?
200
Interrupting an action or situation with action from another space or from a different point of view.
What is montage?
300
Dulac had a rivalry with _________. They were both drawn to the political Left, and they often jumped around in their style of filmmaking.
Who is Louis Delluc?
300
Historical dramas could comment on contemporary life only through _______ and ________.
What are indirection and allegory?
300
Modernist independent works faded fast in France, but years later, became very popular in which cinema culture.
What is American Cinema?
300
Came from a well-to-do family and first became a director to make his wife a movie star.
Who is Jean Renoir?
300
The detachment and kinetic balance to express potentially disturbing subject matter in Ballet mecanique, which depends heavily on this type of editing.
What is graphic editing?
400
Cited as the decade’s most influential film, but unfortunately only parts survived.
What is Ames de fous (Madmen’s Souls)?
400
One of the largest hits of the exotic costume drama, directed by Jacques Feyder.
What is L’Atlantide?
400
Originally a painter, this man emerged in the cinema industry during the modernist movement, creating works such as Ballet mecanique.
Who is Fernand Leger?
400
He created some of the best film comedies of the era, but never rejected the mainstream.
Who is Rene Clair?
400
Menilmontant contains several bursts of __________, which are not rhythmic in any simple or narratively justified way.
What is rapid editing?
500
The feminist magazine Dulac wrote at, which gave her serious contact with the cinema industry.
What is La Francaise?
500
Virtually the only genre in which problems of everyday life could be routinely examined.
What is pictorialist naturalism?
500
The most radical of the independents saw art as a way of changing the world. For less radical, it represented __________.
what is a world unsullied by violence and greed?
500
Opposite of Dulac, who could not get out of the spotlight, he was not involved in the mainstream and made a few great works in isolation
Who is Dimitri Kirsanov?
500
Impressionists cared more for the _________ than for the stories that were being told.