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European Cinema
Europe after WWI
Industry lagged
behind Certainty of pre-war
times challenged inmatters of class, art,
spirituality &politically
Unemployment in the Weimar Republic
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European Cinema
Russia
Lev Kuleshov the
Father of SovietCinema and theKuleshov Effect
The viewers
interpretation isdetermined bycontext (orsequence)
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European Cinema
Russia
Influence of Lenin
and the Revolution Filmmakers such as
Vsevolod Pudovkinand SergeiEisenstein
Eisensteins Battleship Potemkin
(1925) & Pudovkins Mother(1926)
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European Cinema
Montage
1. A synonym for editing.
2. An approach to editing
developed by the Sovietfilmmakers of the 1920ssuch as Pudovkin andEisenstein; it emphasizesdynamic, oftendiscontinuous,
relationships betweenshots and the juxtapositionof images to create ideasnot present in either shotby itself
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European Cinema
France
Abel Gance
Wildly experimentalin form & length
Napoleon(1927)
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European Cinema
Germany
Huge influence on
American Cinema asso many filmmakersfled the Nazis
Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang,Billy Wilder, Robert Siodmak
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European Cinema
Expressionism: atheory or practice inart of seeking todepict the subjectiveemotions andresponses thatobjects and events
arouse in the artist
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European Cinema
Not about realism
Visually expressingthe inner emotion,psychology &spirituality
Distorted reality foremotional effect
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European Cinema
Film
Robert Wienes
The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari(1919) Sets are distorted,
artificial, shadowy,and disorienting.
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European Cinema
Expressionismheavily influencedfilm noir& Hitchcock,
Welles and manyother directors
The Maltese Falcon,The Wrong Man,,Citizen Kane & Childrenof Men
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European Cinema
The WeimarRepublic, 1919-
1933 Economic difficulty
combined withthriving arts scene
Threepenny Opera & Burning Currency for Warmth
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European Cinema
Universum Film AG
F.W. Murnau
G.W. Pabst Fritz Lang
Josef von Sternberg
Billy Wilder
Lotte Reiniger
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European Cinema G.W. Pabst, 1885-1967
Most successful,artistically & financially
Famous for collaborationwith American actressLouise Brooks
Pandoras Box(1928)
Diary of a Lost Girl(1929)
Returned to Germany &
made films during thewar which proved aproblem later
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European Cinema
Josef von Sternberg,1894-1969 The Blue Angel, 1930
First German talkieEnglish and Germanversion shot at the sametime
Gave us Marlene Dietrich
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European Cinema
Lotte Reiniger,1889-1981
Silhouette animator Oldest surviving
animated feature film
The Adventures of Prince Achmed(1926)
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European Cinema
Ernst Lubitsch, 1882-1947 Sophisticated
comedies European sensibility
Relied on the raisedeyebrow and not thespecifics
Ninotchka, Three Women & The Shop Around the Corner
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European Cinema
The Lubitsch Touch
Billy Wilder always kept asign hanging in his office
that asked, "How wouldLubitsch do it?
At his funeral, Billy Wildernoted: "No moreLubitsch." William Wyler
answered: "Worse thanthat - no more Lubitschfilms."
Some Like it Hot
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European Cinema
Fritz Lang, 1890-1976
Started as artist
Went into the film
business at UFA Broke out with Destiny
(1920) & Dr Mabuse, theGambler(1921)
Went on to a long career
in Hollywood
Vital in the developmentof film noir
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European Cinema
Metropolis 1927
Ground-breaking Science
Fiction Bankrupted studio
1/4 film lost until recently -Additional footage found avault in Brazil
Original version has notbeen seen since premierealthough with the foundfootage, the film is nowonly missing about 10minutes
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European Cinema
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European Cinema
Blade Runner
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European Cinema
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European Cinema
"Schufftan Process
Angled mirrors tocombine miniatureswith actors
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European Cinema
F.W. Murnau, 1888-1931 Emigrated to Hollywood in
1926
Sunrise(1927) filmed inMovietone Sound on Film -music and effects only
Breakthrough process &tracking shots
Special Academy Award for
Best Picture, Unique andArtistic Production
Sunrise, 1927
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European Cinema Nosferatu(1922)
The Last Laugh(1924)
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European Cinema
Making of Nosferatufictionalized in Shadow of theVampire, 2000 with JohnMalkovich as Murnau &
Willem Dafoe as MaxSchreck