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ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies Hollywood Cinema and Beyond

A is for . . . .


African American Cinema

Robert Altman (1925-2006)

•M*A*S*H•Brewster McCloud•McCabe and Mrs. Miller•Nashville•Three Women•The Player

American

Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994)

•This Sporting Life•If•O Lucky Man!

British


Animation


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Art Cinema


The Avant-Garde


Bis for . . . .


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Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)

•The Seventh Seal•Wild Strawberries•Persona•Through a Glass Darkly•Fanny and Alexander

Swedish

The Blacklist

Robert Bresson (1901-1999)

•Diary of a Country Priest•Trial of Joan of Arc

French

Luis Bunuel (1900-1983)

•Un Chien Andalou•Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise•Viridiana•The Exterminating Angel•Belle je jour•That Obscure Object of Desire

Spanish


Cis for . . . .


Jane Campion (1954- )SweetieThe PianoPortrait of a LadyIn the Cut

Frank Capra (American, 1899-

1970)

John Cassavetes (1929- )

•Faces•Husbands•A Woman Under the Influence•Gloria

American


Censorship

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

Easy Street (Charlie Chaplin, 1917)


Cinema of Attractions

Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)“Poetry is indispensable. I wish I knew what for.”

Beauty and the BeastOrpheeThe Blood of the Poet


Columbia Pictures


Counter-Cinema

Michael Curtiz (1888-1962)

•Casablanca•Mildred Pierce

Hungarian-American


Dis for . . . .


Documentary

Kino-EyeMan with a Movie Camera (Dizga Vertov, 1929)

(Vertov, 1896-1954)

“Life caught unaware”

Cinéma VéritéAKA Direct CinemaDocumentary filmmaking style that began in the 1950s/early 1960s Technologically inspired—by the advent of lightweight portable cameras and sync-sound equipment to capture events as they happen on location, without a scriptInspirations: Lumiere Brothers, Vertov, Neo-Realism, Free CinemaKey Americans: D.A. Pennebaker, Albert and David Maysles, and Richard Leacock

Cinéma VéritéDirect vs. Vérité: “According to Erik Barnouw (Documentary):direct cinema: “hopes to find a crisis while shooting”; cinéma vérité: “wishes to precipitate one”Direct cinema: “an invisible observer” (Leacock’s "the fly on the wall"); cinéma vérité: “an unabashed participant”For both: filming events as they transpire leads to what Rouch has called a "privileged moment," in which a truth about the subject of the film is revealed. To what extent the presence of the camera affects the real-life situation, and thus compromises this truth, has been a hotly debated issue.--Thanks to Baseline Encyclopedia of Film

Free Cinema Documentary film movement originating in England, 1956-

1959 Spawned by the journal Sequence. Founders: Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson,

Anderson’s motto: "No Film Can Be Too Personal.” Governing principles:1. Freedom of propaganda2. Obliviousness to box office appeal.3. Embrace of the filmmaker’s freedom4. Ordinary people and everydayness—the primary focus5. “The image speaks. Sound amplifies and comments.”6. “Size is irrelevant.”7. “Perfection is not an aim.”8. “An attitude means a style. A style means an attitude.”


Carl Dreyer (1888-1968)VampyreThe Passion of Joan of ArcDay of Wrath


Eis for . . . .


Event Cinema


Exhibition and Reception


Fis for . . . .


Female Authorship


Feminist Counter-Cinema

Robert Flaherty (1884-1951)

John Ford (1895-1973)

•My Darling Clementine•Fort Apache•She Wore a Yellow Ribbon•The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance•The Searchers

American

Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)


Fourth World/Indiginous Cinema


G is for . . . .

D. W. Griffith (American, 1875-1948)

Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith, 1915)


H is for . . . .

Howard Hawks (American, 1896-1977)


High Concept

Alfred Hitchcock (1889-1980)

•Rear Window•Rope•Notorious•Spellbound•North by Northwest•Vertigo•Psycho•The Birds

British-American

John Huston (1906-1987)

•The Maltese Falcon•Moby-Dick•African Queen•The Treasure of the Sierra Madre


I is for . . . .


Independent Cinema


Indiewood

HollywoodDollywoodWellywood


J is for . . . .


K is for . . . .

Eliza Kazan (1909-2003 )

•On the Waterfront•A Streetcar Named Desire•East of Eden

Turkish-American

Buster Keaton (1895-1966)

King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)

American

"[Like the monolith in 2001, Stanley Kubrick] was a force of supernatural intelligence, appearing at great intervals amid high-pitched shrieks, who gives the world a violent kick up the next rung of the evolutionary ladder."--David Denby

Akira Kurosowa (1910-1998)

•The Seven Samurai•Kagemusha•Rashomon•Ran•Dreams

Japanese


L is for . . . .

Fritz Lang (German-American, 1890-1976)

David Lean (1908-1991)

•Lawrence of Arabia•Doctor Zhivago•Bridge Over the River Kwai•A Passage to India

British

Sergio Leone (1929-1989)

•The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly•For a Few Dollars More•Once Upon a Time in the West•Once Upon a Time in America

Italian

Ernst Lubitsch (German-American, 1892-1947)


Mis for . . . .

The Marx Brothers (Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, Chico)(American)


MGM


Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951)

Vincent Minnelli (1910-1986)

•Meet Me in St. Louis•Madame Bovary•Brigadoon•Father of the Bride

American


Miramax

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, 1936 [Cooper, Jean Arthur, Capra])

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)


N is for . . . .


Mira Nair (1957- )Vanity FairMonsoon WeddingKama SutraMississippi MasalaSalaam Bombay!

Neo-Realism

“[The neo-realists] are concerned to make cinema the asymptote of reality but in order that it should ultimately be life itself that becomes spectacle, in order that life might in this perfect mirror be visible poetry, be the self into which film finally changes it.”--Andre Bazin, What is Cinema?

Roberto Rossellini | Vittorio De SicaCesare Zavattini | Federico Fellini

Neo-RealismThe Movement’s Chief Theoretician: Cesare Zavattini

Neo-Realism

De Sica and Zavattini

Vittorio de Sica (1902-1974)

•Umberto D•The Bicycle Thief

Italian

Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007)

•L’Notte•L’Ecclise•L’Avventura•Blow-Up•Zabriskie Point•The Passenger Italian

Federico Fellini (1920-1993)•La Strada•La Dolce Vita•8 1/2•Fellini-Satyricon•Juliet of the Spirits•Amarcord

Italian

FedericoFellini

Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977)

•Open City

Italian

Neo-Realism

The Bicycle Thief


New Hollywood


New Distribution, Exhibition, and Reception

New Wave•The impact of Alexandre Astruc: cinema as “the art of the age”; “camera-stylo” [camera-pen]•André Bazin’s influence [Cahiers du Cinema]•The break with literature•Location shooting•New approach to acting•Independence from studios•The centrality of the director (birth of the “auteur theory”)

Alain Resnais (1922- )

•Last Year at Marienbad•Hiroshima, Mon Amour

French

Marcel Camus (1912-1982)

•Black Orpheus

French

Éric Rohmer(1920- )La Collectionneuse (The Collector) Ma Nuit chez Maud (My Night with Maud)Le Genou de Claire (Claire's Knee) L'Amour l'après-midi (Chloe in the Afternoon, Love in the Afternoon) Die Marquise von O... (The Marquise of O)Le Signe du lionLa Femme de l'aviateur (The Aviator's Wife)Le Beau marriage (A Good Marriage)Pauline à la plage (Pauline at the Beach)Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray) Conte de printemps (A Tale of Springtime)Conte d'hiver (A Winter's Tale) Conte d'été (A Summer's Tale) Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale)

French

Jean-Luc Godard (1930- )

•Breathless•Weekend•The Chinese•Masculine/Feminine•Two or Three Things I Know About Her

French

Louis Malle (1932-1995)

•The Lovers•A Very Private Affair•Murmur of the Heart•Pretty Baby•Atlantic City•Au revoir les enfants•My Dinner with Andre•Damage

French

François Truffaut (1932-1984)

•400 Blows•Jules and Jim•Day for Night•Shoot the Piano Player

French


Niche Marketing

Mike Nichols (1931- )•Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf•The Graduate•Catch-22•Angels in America•Charlie Wilson’s War

German-American


O is for . . . .

Yasujiro Ozu (1930-1963)

•Tokyo Story

Japanese


P is for . . . .

Pier Paolo Pasolini(1922-1975)

•Accatone•The Decameron•The Canterbury Tales•The Thousand One Nights•The Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom

Italian

Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984)

•Ride the High Country•The Wild Bunch•Straw Dogs•The Getaway•Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia•Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

American

Arthur Penn (1922- )

•The Left-Handed Gun•The Miracle Worker•Bonnie and Clyde•Alice’s Restaurant•Little Big Man

American

Roman Polanski (1933- )

•Repulsion•Knife in the Water•Chinatown•Rosemary’s Baby•Macbeth•The Pianist

Polish-American

Edwin S. Porter (1870-1941)


Postcolonial Cinema


Postwar Globalization


Q is for . . . .


Queer Cinema


R is for . . . .

Nicholas Ray (1911-1979)

•Johnny Guitar•Rebel Without a Cause•Knock on Any Door

American

Satyajit Ray (1902-1992)

•Pather Panchali•Aparajito

Indian

Carol Reed (1906-1976)

•The Third Man•Our Man in Havana•The Agony and the Ecstasy•Oliver!

British

Jean Renoir (France, 1894-1979)

Rules of the GameGrand Illusion

Leni Riefenstahl (Germany, 1902-2003)

Triumph of the WillOlympia


RKO Pictures


S is for . . . .

Silent v. Sound (Singin’ in the

Rain)

Douglas Sirk (1910-1987)

•Imitation of Life•Magnificent Obsession•All That Heaven Allows•Written on the Wind

German-American

George Stevens (1904-1975)

•Shane•Giant•The Diary of Anne Frank•The Greatest Story Ever Told

American


Preston Sturges (1898-1959)

The Great McGintyThe Lady EveSullivan's TravelsThe Palm Beach StoryThe Miracle of Morgan's CreekHail the Conquering Hero


Surrealism


T is for . . . .


Irving Thalberg (1899-1936)


U is for . . . .

Underground/Experimental Film

Maya Deren (1917-1961)

•Meshes of the Afternoon•Ritual in Transfigured Time•Divine Horseman

Russian-American

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003)

•Dog Star Man

American

Andy Warhol(1928-1987)

•Empire•Sleep•B#*w Job•Eat

American

Jordan Belson (1926- )

•Transmutation•Mandala•Re-Entry•Samadhi•Cosmos•Chakra•Music of the Spheres

American


Universal Studios


Vis for . . . .

Josef Von Sternberg (Germany, 1894-1969)

Blue AngelMoroccoBlonde VenusShanghai Express

Jean Vigo (France, 1905-1934)Zero de ConduiteL’Atalante

Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957)


W is for . . . .


Raoul Walsh (1997-1980)

The Roaring TwentiesWhite HeatThey Died with Their Boots onThey Drive by Night


Warner Brothers

Billy Wilder (1906-2002)

•Double Indemnity•Sunset Boulevard•Some Like It Hot•The Apartment•Ace in the Hole

Polish-American

Ed Wood (1924-1978)

•Plan 9 from Outer Space•Glen and Glenda

American


World War I and Film

William Wyler (1902-1981)

•The Best Years of Our Lives•Wuthering Heights•The Little Foxes•Roman Holiday

American


X is for . . . .


Y is for . . . .


Z is for . . . .


Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo, 1933)

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