Good ol' Godard
The Giscard Administration
A Beautiful Day in May
Women in Film
Good in Theory
100
What are jump cuts.
What was the most obviously radical aspect of Godard's first feature "A bout de souffle"?
100
An almost immediate effect of the new government. They all but abolished this.
What is censorship?
100
These events can be attributed to the demographic shift seen in France in the 1960s.
What are low birth rates during the Occupation and high birth rates after the Liberation?
100
One of the most striking and genuinely new aspects of the television generation was the dramatic increase of this type of writer and director of feature films.
What are female writers and directors of feature films?
100
while these films were written/directed by women, they didn't challenge the status quo
What is the difference between women cinema and feminist cinema?
200
Government censors found the plot to be a threat to public order.
Why weren't audiences able to see "Le Petit Soldat" until a few years after it's release?
200
After the removal of restrictions on the representation of sexuality, a new network of producers and exhibitors of this type of film came into being.
What are X-rated pornographic films?
200
This important part of the French film industry was abolished as a result of the events of May of 1968.
What is the C.N.C. (Le Centre National du Cinéma)?
200
One of the most commercially savvy writer-directors of her generation, who has been studiously ignored by academic feminists and by historians.
Who is Diane Kurys?
200
Think mohawks and sugar; this is the closest the French cinema has gotten to a coherent "narrative avant-garde"
What is punk hyper realism?
300
What is sound.
Godard's exploration of the many possible uses of _____ accredited him as the most adventurous French filmmaker of the 1960s.
300
The virtual abolition of censorship consolidated and developed this trend which was already underway since Louis Malle’s Les Amants in 1958.
What is film becoming more sexually explicit?
300
The events of May of 1968 focused on rebelling against this concept in French culture.
What is the oppressive yet efficient class system that still remained from past generations?
300
These filmmakers’ works were stylistically polished, conventional, and made no effort to challenge the norms of mainstream cinema.
Who are Nelly Kaplan and Diane Kurys?
300
Queen Latifah's songs and mainstream film making at the time have this in common while Goddard does not
What is a sense of unity?
400
To create a style of nonbourgeois filmmaking which refuses to provide the misleading coherence of mainstream commercial narrative.
What was the goal of Godard's countercinema?
400
The most significant action of the new government for the future of French cinema
What is the reorganization of the old O.R.T.F.?
400
These two publications underwent drastic changes after the events of May of 1968.
What are Cinéthique and Les Cahiers du Cinéma?
400
These women’s issues gained a highly visible presence in contemporary French cinema.
What are sexual exploitation, rape, and abortion?
400
Like a '68 Chevy, this film structure promotes ideas of individualism over shared solidarity
What is classic cinema narrative?
500
What is the Vietnam War.
What was the reason for Godard's rejection of American mass culture?
500
No longer fearful of offending government ministries, filmmakers made these 3 narratives a staple of big budget, mainstream productions.
What are tales of conspiracy, incompetence, and wrongdoing in high places?
500
These three directors worked on projects that focused on this issue raised by the events of the May rebellion (2).
Who are Karmitz, Malle, and Godard?; What is the sociopolitical situation of factory workers?
500
The intellectual and aesthetic difference between this director’s continuing radical experiments in film form set her apart as the most innovative French female filmmaker of her time.
Who is Marguerite Dumas?
500
No need to panic; critics described this 2 director movie as "decadent formalism" (2 answers; directors names and movie title)
What is Gorin and Godard's <>