Film studies global cinema

Compare how far your chosen films reflect the auteur signature features of their film makers . Humphrey Bogart and the private detective genre - wasn't fully established yet but this helped lay the ground work  . Michael Curtiz - gritty hard edged films (Journey man director - does a bit of everything) . Warner type films . Arthur Edeson Casablanca reflects various auteur signatures, but from multiple auteurs calling into question the singularity of auteur ship. The context of the studio system can also put into question the theory of Auteur ship, especially as many of these 'auteurs' were absorbed through this system into the studio; where the studio restricted creative freedoms and the producers asserted more and more control dissolving an auteurs signature style into an easily digestible homogenous lump. 'Auteurs' also faced restriction from the Hays code, a moral guide for films which was rigidly enforced; it included the prohibition of sex on screen and...

Warner bros . gritty crime . Private detective thrillers . Depression era America films . Urban settings . Snappy dialogue . No  sentimentality . Pacey . Unremarkable looking guys as leads . Strong personalities . Slave wages . Casablanca . Mervyn Leroy and Michael Curtiz . Michael Curtiz under Warner Brothers - most of them staged in a very realistic world, hard edged realism People involved in Casablanca . Jack Warner - Was anti-nazi, fully committed to the allied war effort (was a polish immigrant and executive producer) . Hal B. Warner - budgets, actors, directors (He was producer) . Very controlling people within the studio system  . Michael Curtiz: could do different genres . Style: High crane shots, unusual camera angles, complex compositions, much camera movement, subjective shots, high contrast lighting . Cinematographer - Arthur Edeson: realism and expressionism, film noir, low key lighting, - casablanca uses expressionistic low-key noir style ...

Aesthetics  Themes  Production  Biographical details  Hollywood section  . Core study areas foregrounding context  . Auteur                                                                Auteur: rather than generic products  . How Auteurs determine look and style of a film in relation to the collaborative medium  Consider:  . what extent is it possible to identify the distinctive contribution of creative individuals, within a large industrial production process  . how far it is appropriate to talk about these individuals as auteurs  . how far it is more appropriate consider filmmaking as a collaborative process  e.g. questions  a) compare how far your chosen films reflects the auteurs signature features of their filmmakers...

. Kubrick pushing his actors to get the performance he wanted (Duvalle + Alex in a clockwork orange)  . Sound, Cinematography, Mise - en- scene  . Kubricks fav font! (sans serif)  . Definition of an Author: Cahier group - Godard + Truffaut - WW2 France there was no films coming through, Post WW2 = French new wave, influenced by seeing a flood of new films after their censorship was lifted after the Nazis were defeated  . Cahier group: seeing all these films come in at the same time allowed them to recognise directors who repeated certain things in all their films in spite of studio stipulations  - Mise en scene as crucial to the reading of the cinema and essential in film analysis and criticism  - The directors personal expression is key in distinguishing whether they are an auteur or not  Definition:  film director whose personal influence and artistic control over his or her films are so great that he or she may be regarded as the...

How far your chosen films reflect aesthetic qualities associated with a particular movement The film  Man with a Movie Camera  comes under the artistic branch of constructivism, specifically soviet montage. Constructivism stresses the importance of the power of industry, usually through construction itself. Its a utilitarian art form in theory and seeks to return art to the worker/ proletariat from the bourgeoisie reflected in its industrial focus; often using industrial materials unlike the canvas paintings before. Soviet montage can be a form of propaganda and was developed by Russian filmmakers, such as Vertov, which aimed to celebrate the proletariat role within the Soviet industrial system, through focus on editing shots to convey meaning. Man with a Movie Camera  embodies constructivism through its depiction of industry and man within industry, seen through the use of editing and various techniques. Within the cog  sequence,  Vertov employs a ...