Thinkers and Theorists
He wrote, "All that is solid melts into air."
Who is Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
These three cinematic genres are a part of the cinema of attractions.
What are the trick film, the gag film, and chase films.
Cinema was seen as part of the magic theatre as practiced by this early filmmaker.
Who is Georges Méliès?
Nanook of the North (1922) was shot in what country?
What is Canada?
- It was specifically shot in Northern Quebec.
He was a scientist, and is now perhaps best known for his photos of human animal locomotion.
Who is Eadward Muybridge?
Who is Laura Mulvey?
According to Dulac and Gaudreault, optical toys like the Zoetrope are an example of this mode of attraction which is interactive and where the viewer is part of the apparatus.
What is a "player mode" of attraction"?
The zoetrope, for its part, demonstrates the tension between two paradigms found within the attractional way in which optical toys function. Here the separation between the material base and the device already indicates, albeit in a very subtle manner, the movement towards a “viewer mode of attraction” as opposed to what we might describe as a “player mode of attraction.”7
MLA (Modern Language Assoc.)
Strauven, Wanda. The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded. Amsterdam University Press, 2006.
APA (American Psychological Assoc.)
Strauven, W. (2006). The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
He was a French banker and philanthropist known for initiating The Archives of the Planet.
Who is Albert Kahn?
"I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason too."
What is Hugo (2011)
This is a name used to characterize the early cinematic films which are distinguished by a continuous shot of typical, everyday life.
What are actualities?
"Panoramic vision responds to a desire to embrace and to circumscribe space, allowing for the observer's eye to seize the whole of an image."
Who is Theresa Castro?
Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope, Lubin Manufacturing, Kalem Company, Star Film Paris, American Pathé joined forces to end the domination of foreign films on US screens, forming this trust.
What is the Motion Picture Patents Company? (MPPC)
Marlene Deitrich worked with him on seven films aat Paramount Pictures.
Who is Josef von Sternburg?
"Wars are not won by evacuation."
What is Dunkirk (2017)
What mode of transportation was essential to Modernism's development and also the vehicle featured in many of the Hale's Tours?
What are trains?
"Cinema first and foremost is montage."
Who is Sergei Eisenstein?
He was a French Filmmaker who made nature films and was adopted by many Expressionist Filmmakers as deeply influential.
Who was Jean Painlevé?
He was the inventor of Chronophotography.
Who is Étienn-Jules Marey?
"When I needed your faith, you withheld it; and now, when I don't need it, and don't deserve it, you give it to me."
What is Shanghai Express (1932)?
This historical event was the main conflict that shaped much of Modernism and narrative cinema's development in Hollywood and Europe.
What was WW1?
"First, it is a cinema that bases itself on the quality that Léger celebrated: its ability to show something... this is an exhibitionist cinema."
Who is Tom Gunning?
This person is a city-dweller, who consumes the visual culture of the city from a mobile gaze of the streets - often anonymously as they move through crowds.
Who is a flaneur?
He founded Paramount Pictures.
Who is Adolph Zukor?
Alan: How long have I to live?
Cesare: Until tomorrow's dawn.
What is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)?
In opposition to Hollywood Melodramas which often take place in domestic scenes of familial relations, the _________________ Melodrama like Hazards of Helen showed women alternately empowered and in distress outside of the home.
What were action serials or adventure serials?