TFM 364B Simplified Exam Guide With Correct Answers.

The New Hollywood - correct answer A new wave of film school graduates turned directors flooded into the studio system in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were cocky, young, and ambitious, ready to reinvigorate an artistic medium that in their minds had become stale. These films were many things (Political, reflexive, raunchy, bloody), but they were also innovative from a narrative standpoint. The French New Wave - correct answer French cinema 1940s/early 1950s Mainstream entertainment Fortified establishment values/stylistic norms. Youth movement in France 1950s○ Found these films stale and conformist. French New Wave filmmakers originated from this group, Cahier du Cinema - correct answer French New Wave filmmakers started out writing as film critics during the 1950s for Cahiers du Cinema. Championed filmmakers from France (Renoir, Tati, and Ophuls) and America (Hitchcock, Hawks, Ford) and became crucial voices a the paper. Passionately advocated for more political, experimental, and formalist version of cinema. French New Wave Style - correct answer New Wave filmmakers believed the cinema was no neutral object, but an artifact created by humans. New Wave filmmakers rebelled against the seamless, polished look of Classical Hollywood -Gritty, sloppy, and more casual. Avoid the artificiality instead capturing a vision of reality more closely aligned with the Italian Neo-realists. Specific New Wave styles - correct answer On location shooting, jump cuts, experimental with film elements, flexible and portable cheap equipment Themes and Motifs of Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962) - correct answer Ambiguity Narrative complexity Aesthetic vitality (jump cuts, fast motion, etc) Awareness of political and creative dilemmas Societal institutions/contradictions Gender roles Conformity vs. Artistic Expression 8. Anxiety over the future Clocks/Mirrors Mortality, melancholy, hope(lessness) Historiography - correct answer The study of the various approaches to historical method and various interpretations of historical events. The study of the techniques employed by the individual historian. Representation of history in visual images and filmic discourse. Cinema as Historiography - correct answer Historiography is concerned with what has been written about historical events, not with the source materials from which the historical fact was derived. The primary sources of historiography are the works of historians. In our case, this will be the films themselves. "The Western is history." How was deadman revisionist - correct answer -Had the main character be a 'weak' male from the East be the protagonist (subverted the hero western archetype) -Had a Native American Protagonist -Frontier is seen as "hell" rather than land to be conquered -As usual, westerns uplifted "white men", characters in deadman often mocked the white man through Nobody DeadMan key themes and motifs - correct answer Capitalism, spirituality, and westward expansion -Communities of Machine and Makah Village The character of Nobody and colonialism -Who essentially becomes the film's historian Violence -Brutality, messy, sadistic, sudden Spirituality -Nobody's philosophy is shaped by both his heritage and traumatic experiences. Irony and Absurdity -Recurring bits of dialogue about tobacco, masculinity, killing "stupid f**** white men" Neil Young's musical score -Electric guitar is just as much a guide as Nobody. Depictions of a decaying frontier The west has become overrun by white frontiersmen, capitalists, and murderers. Hollywood in the Cold War Age - correct answer Hollywood cinema went through many different phases of anti-Soviet narratives, beginning with the espionage films and Noirs of the late 1940s and 50s on through more conservative leaning action films in the 1980s. Often at the center of these films was a sense of panic and fear that the other side would gain leverage that could tilt the balance of power.