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French New Wave
Italian Neo-Realism
New Hollywood
Post-War Hollywood
Japanese Cinema/ Documentary
100
The disparaging term for French classical cinema
What is Cinema du Papa?
100
This is one of the most famous Italian Neo-realist films
What is The Bicycle Thieves?
100
This film was one of the first revolutionary Hollywood films, about a college graduate who has an affair with an older woman.
What is The Graduate?
100
This case deemed that movie studios could not also own movie theater chains.
What is Paramount V US?
100
It was characterized initially by filmmakers' desire to directly capture reality and represent it truthfully, and to question the relationship of reality with cinema.
What is Direct Cinema?
200
The two most famous French New Wave directors
What are Truffaut and Godard?
200
This genre was more concerned with adaptations.
What is classical Italian cinema?
200
They emphasize spectacle, star power, and high production value, and massive advertising to attract a huge audience
What is a blockbuster?
200
It's a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen.
What is Cinerama?
200
This type of cinema shows the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of the Edo period.
What is Jidai-geki?
300
This type of cinema forced the audience to submit to a dictatorial plot-line
What is classical French cinema?
300
This genre focused on philosophical questions and psychology.
What is Italian Neo-realism?
300
It is often characterized by the absence of linear narrative and the use of various abstracting techniques (out of focus, painting or scratching on film, rapid editing). The goal is often to place the viewer in a more active and more thoughtful relationship to the film.
What is Avant-Garde?
300
The mid-twentieth-century list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals who were denied employment in the field because of their political beliefs or associations, real or suspected.
What is The Hollywood 10?
300
The most famous Japanese director
Who is Akira Kurosawa?
400
An influential French film magazine that re-invented the basic tenets of film criticism and theory.
What is Cahiers du cinema?
400
Neorealist films are generally filmed with these kind of actors.
What are nonprofessional actors?
400
This is one of the first and most famous blockbusters
What is Jaws?
400
This was the peak year in revenue for Hollywood.
What is 1946?
400
It is characterized by the use of the camera to provoke and reveal.
What is Cinema Verite?
500
This group was much more experimental than others in the French New Wave
What is the Left Bank?
500
Neorealist films concentrate on these kind of details.
What are mundane, quotidian activities?
500
TV's influence, European (and Asian) influence, Independent cinema, change in the target audience, and changing social and sexual values caused this
What is the rebirth/renaissance of Hollywood?
500
Falling revenue , the popularity of television, the Red Scare, and the demands of new technologies led to this.
What is the decline of studio control?
500
A Japanese drama developed in the 17th century characterized by elaborate costumes, rhythmic dialogue, stylized acting, music, and dancing. Males play both the male and female roles
What is Kabuki theater?