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Revision as of 11:30, 29 June 2013
André Bazin
- Wrote during the post-World War II years: 1940s-1958
- Died in 1958 at age 39
- Cahiers du Cinéma
- Founded 1950 with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Lo Duca in 1951.
- And edited it until his death
- World's most influential film journal in 1950/60's.
- "Auteur Theory"
- Auteur = "author"
- François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer
- Bazinian realism
- "Evolution of Film Language"
- "Language" = film style, technique
- Divides filmmakers into two approaches:
- Those who put their "faith in the image"
- Méliès
- German expressionism
- Soviet montage--Kuleshov, Eisenstein
- Those who put their "faith in reality"
- Lumière Brothers
- Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, and William Wyler.
- Those who put their "faith in the image"
- Advocated a specific type of realism:
- Deep focus
- Composition in depth
- Spatial continuum
- Longer takes
- Temporal continuum
- Lateral camera movement
- Deep focus
Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
- Silent films
- Surrealist, experimental
- Sound films in France, pre-WW II
- 1930s
- Popular Front—liberal, socialist politics
- Poetic Realism—dark dramas
- Sound films in US, during WW II
- Variety
- Sound films in France, post-WW II
- 1950s
- Theatrical, backstage stories; comedies, musicals
Strongly recommended:
Go watch Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons in the Gorgas Library!
Notes on the lectures in TCF 440/540 Seminar in American Cinema. Collaboratively created by students in the class.