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| German government's commitment to film industry during WWI |
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| protect and grow the film industry despite the war |
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| Number of German film Companies between 1914 and 1918 |
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| Most prominent directof of German historical epics |
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| Characteristics of Fantasy, Social Problem, Spectacle, Kammerspiel films |
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Fantasy: non-realistic elements
Spectacle: historical epics (much less cost than Hollywood)
Social Problem: political film
Kammerspiel: chamber dramas, few characters, small # settings, explored crisis in lives, character psychology, unhappy conclusion |
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| Definition of chiaroscuro lighting |
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| strong contrast of light and dark |
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| German Expressionism characteristics |
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| reaction against physical realism, expressed an inner emotiuonal reality, stress on composition (mise-en-scene), jerky/unnatural acting style, chiaroscuro lighting, continuity editing, camera work functional and invisible, set in the past/exotic locations, flashback stories |
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| Titles and directors of two films beginning and end of German Expressionist film movement |
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| "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" by Robert Wiene; "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang |
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| athletic feats and seeking enlightment |
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| Leni Riefenstahl mountain movie |
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| Athlete featured against Nazi wishes |
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| Photography skills and editing |
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| carried propganda films to countryside and soldiers |
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| Condition of Soviet Film industry in 1918 |
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| struggled, civil war and great hardships |
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| Mozhukin, creative geography, creative anatomy |
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| What Kuleshov's experiments proved |
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| viewer's individual response depended on editing more than shot |
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| fusion of art and politics, art is built brick by brick, art should be understood by everyone, controlled acting, calcutated to aliict a response |
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| Early Soviet Cinema characteristics |
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| portrayals of clash and revolution, downplayed individual, social forces source of cause and effect, utilized special effects, realistic lighting, realistic mise-en-scene |
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| How Einstein advanced Kuleshov's theories of editing |
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| contrasting unrelated shots by shock |
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| antithetical elements clash and produce a synthesis that goes beyond both |
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| Poisonous to the viewer (films made for entertainment) |
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| Title of experimental film by Dziga Vertov |
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| Man with the Movie Camera |
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| Famous film of the montage movement |
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| Avant garde capital of the world |
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| pushing the boundaries; artists who seek to challenge norms thru experimentation |
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| Avant garde film makers work to preserve what and challenged accepted notions of what |
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| films of the past and reference old films in newer works; of what films could do and look like |
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| created shadows on exposed film by scattering springs, tacks, salt n pepper, etc |
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| Dali and Bunuel's film the Andalusion Dog |
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| shock and repulse but the audience loved it |
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| artistic, technical, commercial |
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| Don Juan with John Barrymore |
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| 1927, starring Al Jolson, part-talkie |
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