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TCF 112 1st EditionExam #3 Study Guide Lectures: 8-11People:Woody Allen:Directed Annie HallJim Jarmusch:A Cinema of Outsiders: Antithesis to mythical, studio films“My aesthetic is minimal. I make films about little things that happen between human beings.”-JarmuschJohn Cassavetes:The Independent SpiritA Woman Under the Influence (1977)He acted to fund his own projectsFilms have seemingly unplanned visual design and emotional, raw performancesBlurs the line between “acting” and “being”Russ Meyer:Sexploitation FilmsFaster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)“King of Nudies”Wrote, directed, edited, and distributed his own filmsFilms satirize conservative values and artistic pretensionsCriticized for his use of womenCelebrated for woman’s narrative powerSteven Spielberg:Studied at UC-Long BeachDirected Close Encounters of the Third KindAndy Warhol:Experimental FilmsBest-known American pop artistWorked in a wide range mediumsMade 60+ “factory films”-Empire (8 hour shot of the Empire State Building)-Sleep (6 hour shot of man sleeping)-Blowjob (man standing, smoking cigarette)-Chelsea Girls (double 16mm projections)Francis Ford Coppola:Directed Apocalypse NowStudied at UCCLASidney Lumet:Directed Dog Day AfternoonStanley Kubrick:Directed Doctor Strangelove Richard Roundtree:Was a leading man in many "Blaxploitation" movies in the 1970sHe is best known for his role as John Shaft in Shaft (1971)George A. Romero:Social TraumaNight of the Living Day (1968)Re-defined sub-genre for a new generationUsed maligned sub-genre to critique social inequalities:-Night of the Living Dead (1968) = racism-Dawn of the Dead (1978) = consumerism-Day of the Dead (1985) = militarism-Land of the Dead (2005) = classRomero’s zombie films vilify callous humans, not monstersMelvin Van Peebles:Wrote/directed/starred in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss SongPam Grier:ActressStarred in FoxyEmile de Antonio:Political DocumentariesMost influential political doc. Filmmaker of his generation Best-known films:-Rush to Judgment (1967)-In the Year of the Pig (1968)-McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter (1975)Used found footage and government archival footage to construct his critical, historical doc.Dennis Hopper:Directed Easy RiderMartin Scorsese:Directed Raging BullStudied at NYUJohn Schlesinger:Directed Midnight CowboyGeorge Lucas:Directed Star WarsArthur Penn:Directed Bonnie & ClydeRobert Altman:Directed M*A*S*HAl Pacino:One of the greatest actors in all of film historyEstablished himself during one of film's greatest decades, the 1970s Has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American moviesStarred in Scarface and The GodfatherRobert Aldrich:Directed Kiss Me DeadlyGordon Parks:Directed ShaftEdward R. Murrow:Murrow know for WWII radio broadcastsSuspicious of TV’s power to inform and function as a social goodMurrow’s TV shows:-Person to Person-celebrity interviews-See It Now-hard news showSee It Now’s “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy” in 1954 led to McCarthy’s censure and fall from graceHarold Russell:Starred in The Best Years of Our LivesDashiell Hammett:Major Writer of the “Hard-boiled” Detective StoriesDirected The Maltese FalconBilly Wilder:Directed The Lost WeekendDirected Double IndemnityJoseph McCarthy:Republican U.S. SenatorBecame the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spiesand sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere.William Wyler:Directed Ben-HurrDirected The Best Years of Our LivesRaymond Chandler:Directed Double IndemnityJules Dassin:Directed The Naked CityTerms:The Independent Producer:Paramount decree led to rise of the Independent ProducerWork to facilitate the creative freedom of the writer and directorBlaxploitation:Emerged in the early 1970’sGenre Features:Black actors in leading rolesBlack characters with tremendous agencyDrug use, sex, extreme violence, fancy cars, and fancy clothesPopular funk/soul musicGenre is celebrated: it gave high profile work to black cast and crewGenre is criticized: it perpetuated race and class-based stereotypesCahiers du cinema:Famous post war film journal Published the criticism of the young cineastesEnergized world film culture and made possible the emergence of the discipline of film studies in universities Later became more political and more theoreticalBecame the basis for academic film studies and the contemporary film theory Hollywood Renaissance:Birth of the Modern Blockbuster:1975-TodayCalled Hollywood RenaissanceSaw significant changes in:Business of the BlockbusterTechnology of the BlockbusterCulture of the BlockbusterCode & MPAA:The Motion Picture Producers and Distributers Association of America (MPDAA, not the MPAA)Enlisted H. Hays to internally regulate movies moral content in order to avert the threats of localcensors The Production Code Administration was headed by Joseph Breen and governed the depiction of crime and sex censoring the industryNew Hollywood:Increased interest in European style art films-non-traditional narratives-outside characters-heightened levels of sexuality and violenceUnprecedented number of foreign and soft-core pornographic films began to appear in mainstream theatreThe Production Code weakened and changed; MPAA ratings system-allowed increase in artistic freedom concerning content and consumer choiceLGBT filmmaking (p. 392):The contributions of LGBT filmmakers are often erased or overlooked1970s saw the rise of the gay rights movement The first LGBT activist movie was Different from the OthersMultiplex:Theatre with two or more screensLudic structure:Engineering Subjectivity:Literature: 3rd person; ideasCinema: 2nd person; ideas and sensoryGames: 1st person; ideas, sensory, and interactivitySocial melodrama:The “social problem” filmCharacterized by:Somber thematic toneDisillusionmentCinematic realism redefined; acknowledges social crisisHollywood’s Version of Neorealism:Common Elements:Professional and non-professional actorsStudio and location shootingTarnished (but redemptive) heroesHappier endings than Italian NeorealismAnti-hero:Characteristic of film noirAlienated and cynicalAt crossroads; can choose good or evilTragically flawedBetween worldsPost-war film movements:This period extended from 1946 to 1968 Saw numerous global film movements including postwar Hollywood cinema, Italian


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