Directors
The director of The Lonedale Operator and Birth of a Nation
D.W Griffith
This kind of cinema directly solicits spectator attention, incites visual curiosity, and provides pleasure through exciting spectacles.
What key economic factor (s) led to Germany's film industry flourishing in the years following WW I?
What is: Inflation/hyperinflation OR import ban/foreign film ban
This key term, derived from the theatre, refers to everything in the frame of the film, which would include lighting, set, props, and the staging and movement of actors.
What is Mise-en-scene?
A theory of film that emphasizes the transformative, poetic power of cinema to enhance the emotional essence of people or objects on screen.
What is photogenie?
The director of Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein
This inter-war film style is famous for its reduced visibility, extensive use of shadows, high contrast lighting, and a method of acting defined by exaggeration.
Expressionism/German Expressionism
Eisenstein's work and notion of montage were ideologically inspired by this major upheaval in Russian history. This event is also why Russia exited WW I.
What is: The Russian Revolution/ The October Revolution 1917
This kind of shot in film is taken with the camera placed approximately where the character’s eyes would be, showing what the character see.
What is a POV shot/subjective camera
This concept in film theory, directly related to photogenie, posits the close-up as the "soul of cinema," capable of intensifying emotion.
What is magnification?
The director of M and Metropolis
Fritz Lang
Ménilmontant is a textbook example of this inter-war film style interested in depicting human psychological depth and interiority
Impressionism
Night and Fog is based on this historical event.
What is: The Holocaust/ Shoa
This kind of cinematography achieves a great depth of field, with several planes visible and in sharp focus.
What is deep focus?
This editing technique is used in narrative filmmaking designed to create a seamless, invisible flow of time and space between shots
What is continuity editing?
This is the director behind Triumph of the Will
Leni Riefenstahl
This film style, which rose to prominence in the post-war years, is famous for its use of non-professional actors and shooting on location.
Neo-realism
This economic period in the United States was the backdrop for many works of film noir and dramatically changed moviegoing habits
What is: The Great Depression
This is the word for a LATERAL camera movement
What is a pan?
This theory of film, championed by Andre Bazin, emphasized cinema's ability to capture objective reality.
What is realism/cinematic realism?
The director of Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
At the core of this film style is a dialectic theory of images born of the constructivist movement in art.
Montage/Dialectical Montage
Expressionism, Impressionism, and Surrealism all defined themselves to varying extents and degrees against this preceding era/philosophical tradition.
What is: The Enlightenment/Rationalism/ (long) Eighteenth Century
This specific lighting technique is most commonly associated with film noir.
What is low-key lighting/high contrast lighting?
This kind of sound in film does not originate from the world of the narrative.
What is non-diegetic sound?