Films
What L'Herbier film experimented with Semi-subjective images?
El Dorado
What were the fundamental aesthetic problems of a majority of impressionist cinema?
Dualism
How did Gance's La Roue convey drunkenness, illness, and fits of insanity in 1922?
Rapid and rhythmic editing
In 1916 how many firms were founded and expanded in Russia?
164
What kind of contract did Gaumont offer L'Herbier?
A two-film contract
What 1924 film experimented with filmic narration?
L'inhumaine/ The New Enchantment
What was the Dulac’s solution to the dichotomy of reality and impressions?
Cinematic rhythm
What were the values of the Juste milieu?
Comfort and tradition
In what years did the high watermark of the Russian efforts come in?
1923 and 1924
What was the witness of the final flowering of the French’s aristocracy?
The belle époque
What was the name of L’Herbier’s most visually restrained films of the silent period?
Feu Mathias Pascal (The Late Mathias Pascal, 1925)
The label “impressionist” was first employed in print by?
Germaine Dulac - (1926)
How was L’Homme du large (Man of the Sea, 1920) narrated?
An array of titles, optical effects, and impressive location shooting.
Kean is considered a more what than L’Argent?
Safely commercial film
Who is most directly responsible for the pictorialist naturalist trend?
André Antoine
What film was influenced by Abel Gance’s experiments with camera mobility in Napoléon?
L’argent (Money 1929)
Who was considered one of the most consistently impressionist directors?
Marcel L’Herbier
What was Rose-France (1919) a mixture of?
Fin-de-siècle, symbolism and nationalist propaganda.
Russian efforts took cinematic impressionism to what conclusion?
Logical and mass oriented
What actors did Epstein direct after he lef Pathé- Consortium ?
Mosjoukine and Lissenko
Who designed the décors in L’Inhumaine/The New Enchantment?
Fernand Léger, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Alberto Cavalcanti, and Claude Autant-Lara.
What are the two types of Impressionism?
Between films is the basic division and a self-effacing narrator is periodically displaced by strong impressionism from a fictional character.
What are Bordwell’s paradigm of the stylistic means?
1) Close ups; (2) Camera movement; (3) Optical devices; (4) Marked displacement within the visual field; (5) Nonlinear editing patterns.
What did symbolic interactionist call the cinematic impressionism in Russia?
Social Reality
What was considered the principal defect of Epstein’s work?
Reliance on artistic intelligence at the expense of any real emotion