FILM STYLES AND MOVEMENTS

 FILM STYLES AND MOVEMENTS 

- Film movements often emerge from an earlier cinematic trend - to rebel. to disrupts, recreate or replace.

- Precipitated by: artistic factors - wanting to do something new with cinema as medium.

- Wider contextual factors - social, political, upheaval, wider political movements influencing art and cinema, material factors - funding often impacted by social or political transformations. 

FRENCH NEW WAVE 1959-64

Key architect, Francois Truffaut. Rebels against older generation of filmmakers: their ideas and methods. "Cinema du papa" - grandad's cinema. 

New directions; new techniques, new ideas / themes and talent. Outside locations, mobile lighter equipment, younger actors. 

Auteurs of the French New Wave: Alan Resnais, Jean Luc-Godard, Jacues Rivette, Agnès Varda. 

ITALIAN NEO-REALISM 1942-51

Emerges before the end of the Second World War

Internal influences - new reality in Italy; poverty, bombings - post war desolation, physical and moral landscape, uncertainty and unemployment.

Values ordinary people; democracy, wants to put Fascist past behind. 

New direction in rejecting melodrama of the theatre.

New direction in representing every day life and people, making their experiences visible on the screen

Slowness, the everyday, non-professional actors, everyday settings. Capturing post-war landscape on the screen; the uncertainty. 

SOVIET MONTAGE

GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM

FREE CINEMA

BRITISH NEW WAVE

Film and cinema dominated by upper and middle classes and their sensibilities/preoccupations - infant and behind the camera.

Working classes represented in "typical" ways: tea lady at the station, house maid, cook and butler. 

DOGME 95

MEXICAN NEW WAVE CINEMA

HAPTIC CINEMA 

FILM STYLES:

Avant Garde

Experimental film and cinema

Documentary 

Arthouse

Noir

Anime