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| The left-wing coalition in France formed to oppose the right-wing fascist parties was referred to as the _______ _____. |
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| The popular front was headed by ____ ____. |
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| What did Léon Blum establish for the working class? |
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| A 40-hour workweek with paid vacations. |
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| In the year ____, Léon's government toppled. |
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| Name the three key filmmakers of the Poetic Realist Movement. |
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| Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carné, and (most notably) Jean Renoir. |
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| T/F: The Poetic Realist filmmakers sought to oppose the Popular Front. |
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| FALSE: The filmmakers' sympathies lie with the Popular Front. |
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| T/F: The French Poetic Realist Movement produced escapist entertainment. |
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| FALSE: The stories were engaged politically and addressed what was going on at the time (unemployment, living on the margins, etc.) Drew attention to current living situations. |
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| The French Poetic Realist Movement ends in 1940 when _______ occupies France. |
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| Pessimistic/fatalistic/romantic/bittersweet tones in French Poetic Realism films represent the people's fear of _________ ___. |
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| What do the Poetic Realist films look like? |
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Naturalistic set design/costumes
Naturalistic/believable acting
Treats frame as a window
Shot on location
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| Name some of the poetic aspects of Poetic Realism. |
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Metaphors
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Romantic
Lyricism
Sensitivity
Gentleness in Image
Star-crossed lovers/doomed romances
Blend of naturalism and lyricism |
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| The Grand Illusion was written and directed by ____ ______. |
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GRAND ILLUSION CHARACTERS:
This French aristocrat agrees to play the decoy in the group's escape plan and is shot down by the polite German aristocrat who runs Wintersborn. |
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GRAND ILLUSION CHARACTERS:
This wealthy middle-class Jewish man is eventually able to escape Wintersborn with his friend. |
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GRAND ILLUSION CHARACTERS:
This man falls in love with the German woman who has taken him and his friend in after their escape. He knows he must leave for Switzerland, but promises to come back for her if he is still alive. |
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GRAND ILLUSION CHARACTERS:
The German captain who befriends his French prisoner of war, a fellow Captain. He is forced to shoot down his French counterpart to prevent his escape, but laments having to do so. |
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GRAND ILLUSION CHARACTERS:
A German widow he shelters the two French runaways to fill the void of loneliness in her home. |
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| Arrangement of objects, characters, and action in all three spatial planes within the frame; the effect is of a heightened sense of three-dimensionality for the mise-en-scène; it can achieve multi-fold effects: it links a character to his/her surroundings; it enables variable composition within the frame and without cutting; it lends a sense of realism to the image in that it imitates human vision. |
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| A shooting style in which the foreground, middle-ground, and background of the image are all simultaneously in sharp focus; generally achieved by using a short/wide angle lens, narrow aperture, and lots of light. |
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| Deep-Focus Cinematography |
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| In philosophy, an attitude that emphasizes the dignity and worth of the individual; a basic premise of humanism is that people are rational beings who possess within themselves the capacity for truth and goodness. |
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| Audio (dialogue/voices, sound fx, or music) that emerges from a source beyond the limits or edges of the frame but is considered part of the fictional world on-screen (note: musical score is not off-screen sound). |
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| An extremely long take shot with a moving camera; a sequence shot covers the entire action of a particular scene, and is a stylistic alternative to master-shot or shot/counter-shot techniques. |
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