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TFM Final Test
Shreding the Gnar
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 3
05/04/2011

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Term
Solana's & Getino's 3 types of Film
Definition
"Cinema"
1) Entertainment (Hollywood)

2) Personal, artistic films (auteurs)

3) Film of political revolt
24 frames per second
Term
West European Auteurs
Definition
AUTEURS= author (director)

-film is an art form & the filmmaker uses it for personal expression
Term
Who started (in) the Italian neo-realist movement?
Definition
Fellini and Antonioni
Term
Fellini
Definition
"life is an absurd circus & I am the ringmaster"
-Film=8 1/2- Film Directors suffering a creatice block as he tries to makehis next movie
Term
Antonioni
Definition
Alienation & search for meaning

-Film- L'avventura
RED DESERT (use of color)
Blow Up (picture)
Term
Louis Bunuel (neo-realist movement)
Definition
"I've always been an atheist thank god"

-Critical attitude toward church (catholics), capitolism & middle class society: uses film to mock them
-Films= The phantom of liberty
Un Chien Andaloy (eye slice)
Belle de jour
Diary of a chambermaid
Term
Pasolini (neo-realist)
Definition
Poem, author, filmmaker, left wing political activist (disturbing films)
-political rumors regarding his murder by a thug in a bathroom
- Film= Salu: 120 days of sodum
(most revolting film ever made)
Term
Bergman (neo-realist movement)
Definition
Spirtual films-themes- (son of a minister), man's relationship w/ god & man's meaning for existence

-Films= The 7th seal (playing chess w/ death)
Wild Strawberries Persona
Term
New German Cinema
Definition
Themes
-Confronting German Nazi recent past

-Confronting the post-war americanizations of west Germany
Term
R.W. Fassbinder

German
Definition
"Suicide waiting to happen"
-Films about outsiders, rejects, & those who fall through the cracks
-extremely prolific, made TV & Film as well
-Melodrama as his genre
-Film = The marriage of Maria Braun
Term
Werner Herzog
German
Definition
"Murder waiting to happen"
-extreme personalities in extreme situations (impossible dreams)
-Film- Aguerre: the wrath of god
(insane military leader who leads his men to their deaths in the amazon)
Fitzcarraido
Grizzly man (alaska)
Term
Wim wenders

German
Definition
-Feelings of home- Slickness & being lost; alienated & displaced

- Film = The American Friend
Paris, Texas
Wings of Desire
Term
What was a "Benshi"?

Japan
Definition
-An actor stood beside the screen and explained
Term
Ozu

Japan
Definition
"Poet of the everyday"

-Camera kept the level of the people he photographs - even sitting

-Traditional Japanese values & aesthetics
-Films = (simple daily life)
Taste of green tea over rice
Floating weeds
Early Spring
Tokyo Story
Term
Oshima

Japan
Definition
-Radical member of Japanese new wave

-Film feature graphic violence & sex designed to offend Japanese sensibilities

-Film = IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES
(Notorious sex crime & often banned for it graphic sex & violence)
Term
Kurosawa

Japan
Definition
-Best known Japanese director in the west

-Brought us historical samurai films & modern stories

-Film = Kashomon
Term
Miyazaki

Japan
Definition
-The Japanese Walt Disney
-Film= Princess monoke
spirited away

-Interested in the clash between the past (environment, myth, old gods) & the future (industrialization)

-anime= not just for kids
Term
What was a Japanese "tendency film"??
Definition
Term
Rashomon

Japan
Definition
"period Drama"

-International acclaim
-Four stories, but no "correct" one
-woodcutter tells the truth
Term
Seven Samurai

Japan
Definition
"period drama"

-Inspired by American Westerns

-In turn, inspired a western: The Magnificent Seven(Tapestry of Lethal Motion_
Term
Ran (Chaos)

Japan
Definition
"Period Drama"

-Grand Finale to career
-Made after failed suicide attempt

-king leer- ???
Term
Third WORLD/ Third Cinema
Definition
-Third Cinema is a cinema of rebellion; as if it were a weapon

-Argenitna- Films about the "Disappeared" ones
-The official story (Luis Puenzo)
- Films about Falkland's man
Term
What is Cine Liberacion?

3rd World
Definition
A leftist activist film movement from Argentina
Term
Q: Who are the “disappeared ones” protested by old women meeting in the center of city?

3rd World
Definition
A: People who were kidnapped or murdered by the new government
Term
Who "disappeared" them & how does that play a role in the official story?
Definition
The politicians from the new government
Term
What war illustrated the weakness & corruption in the political leadership of Argentina?

3rd World
Definition
A: The Falklands War
o Our film: The Official Story
Term
What was a benshi
Definition
a Person off screen who would explain what was happening during the movie by using his own dialogue.
Term
Q: What was a Japanese "tendency film"?
Definition
A: Socially-conscious, left-leaning films made in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s
Term
Q: Why was Rashomon significant? What does it say about Truth and subjective point of view? Who tells the truth in this story? Does the tag-on ending about the three men “finding something” tell us if Kurosawa feels there is any hope for us in this evil world? (I don’t want to give it away if you didn’t watch it.)
Definition
A: Rashomon was significant because it was a cynical film on humanity and showed how evil man can be. None of the characters tell the truth about what happened. In the end the three men discover an abandoned baby, it sends the message that there is still hope when the man who had lied about stealing the dagger is willing to take the child into his care.
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