What is an Auteur?

The distinctive mark of director apperant in the film, a willingness of the director to reveal the artifice, leaving his/her stamp on the film.

Who is Andrew Sarris?

Advocacy for auteur theory: he advocated for people watching the entire body of work of directors. He believed that American genre films/Hollywood films were actually film art. His criticism looked at whole body of work. He believed commercial filmmakers were equally artistic.

What is Modernist cinema?

Self reflective. 

Two examples of modernist films: moth light, meshes of the afternoon.

No interest in narrative or representation, instead there is an interest in exploring the nature of film, not entertainment. Interest in purity, emphasis on style, emphasis on camera anfd film strip.

What is Cashiers du cinema?

Film journal, criticism of old French movies. Tradition of cinema of our fathers. New kind of cinema.

What is Third cinema?

Movies from the previously colonized world, anti imperialist cinema, to drive people to political action.

What is Second cinema?

Art cinema. Non-revolutionary

What is First cinema?

commercial cinema.

Why did Art cinema collaps?

Hollywood was collapsing, and getting involved in importing international films.

Hollywood starts to replicate the style of art cinema.

This was destructive to the art film market.

Hollywood wanted to make a buck.

 New York film festival

How the festival emerged at the for front of progressive and innovative film exhibition. Tastemaker, widely understood by critics and cinephiles as source of good cinema.

 New Hollywood

Hollywood had more freedom to make art films, deregulation, relaxed censorship.

Collapse in the studio system.

Studio become open to other kinds of styles, concurrent with filmmakers coming-of-age who had gone to film school and watched international cinema.

What is a co-production?

Multiple countries collaborating in creating a film.

What is Cinematic realism?

More respectful towards the audience.

Less attention to formal elements.

Basin said cinematic realism exists as a style and as an experience of watching a film.

Aestetic style.

Strong connection to the REAL work, and parts of world that are not documented in commercial cinema.

Social struggles, working class people.

Shoot on location in lived spaces.

Long shot and long take, you as viewer can decide what you want too look at, just like you do in reality.

What is art cinema?

Outside of conventional Hollywood cinema.

Stylistic tendencies from Bordwell readings.
Defined by bordwell, as is hybrid of commercial mainstream cinema and modernist cinema, conventions of mainstream, narrative, but infused with modernist sensibilities.

What is auteur theory?

Director is author of film. Stylistic continuity can be traced throughout body of work.

What is Neo realism?

A cinematic movement that used realistic teqniques.

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