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ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies

National Cinemas

AustraliaChinaDenmarkEnglandFranceGermany

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Always problematicThe example of East GermanyThe example of South Africa (under Apartheid)DecolonizationThird CinemaImported filmmakers—Chaplin, Hitchcock, Ang LeeAnd the Transnational: Bollywood, Kung Fu Films, American filmsThe Hollywood/World Cinema dichotomyAmerican film’s borrowing (Kill Bill)National status through setting, story (setting ≠ on location): the examples of Scotland and AfricaMulti-nation partnership: Advance PartyNot identifying with the nation: QuébécoisNational cinemas and awards, film festivals


Australian Cinemaxxxxx


Australian CinemaDid not begin in the 1970sBritish-backedAustralia as a settingAborigines—Rabbit Proof Fence (Philip Noyce, 2002)Six Landmarks:

Walkabout (1971)Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman, 1986)Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994)Muriel’s Wedding (P. J. Hogan, 1994)Wolf Creek (Greg McLean, 2005)

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Gillian Armstrong (1950- )

My Brilliant CareerStarstruckMrs. SoffelHigh TideFires WithinOscar and Lucinda


Bruce Beresford (1940- )

The Getting of WisdomBreaker MorantTender MerciesCrimes of the HeartThe Fringe DwellersDriving Miss Daisy


Baz Luhrman (1962- )

Strictly BallroomRomeo + JulietMoulin Rouge!Australia

Jane Campion (1954- )

SweetieThe PianoPortrait of a LadyIn the Cut



George Miller (1945- )

Mad MaxThe Road WarriorMad Max: Beyond ThunderdomeThe Witches of EastwickLorenzo’s OilBabeBabe: Pig in the CityHappy FeetHappy Feet 2


Philip Noyce (1950- )

Dead CalmPatriot GamesClear and Present DangerThe SaintThe Bone CollectorRabbit-Proof FenceThe Quiet AmericanSalt


Alex Proyas (1963- )

The CrowDark CityI, RobotKnowingDracula-Year Zero


Fred Schepisi (1939- )

The Chant of Jimmie BlacksmithBarbarosaPlentyRoxanneA Cry in the DarkSix Degrees of SeparationFierce Creatures


Peter Weir (1944- )

Picnic at Hanging RockThe Last WaveGallipoliThe Year of Living DangerouslyWitnessThe Mosquito CoastDead Poets SocietyThe Truman ShowMaster and Commander


British Cinema

The problem of the USProtectionismEaling Studios Comedy (compare to Capra)Hammer HorrorSocial Realism: Angry Young Men, Kitchen Sink, Free CinemaLean, Merchant/Ivory, James Bond

Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994)

This Sporting LifeIfO Lucky Man!

Film Studies: National Cinemas—EnglandFilm Studies: National Cinemas—England

Free Cinema Documentary film movement originating in England, 1956-

1959 Spawned by the journal Sequence. Founders: Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson,

Anderson’s motto: "No Film Can Be Too Personal.” Governing principles:1. Freedom of propaganda2. Obliviousness to box office appeal.3. Embrace of the filmmaker’s freedom4. Ordinary people and everydayness—the primary focus5. “The image speaks. Sound amplifies and comments.”6. “Size is irrelevant.”7. “Perfection is not an aim.”8. “An attitude means a style. A style means an attitude.”


Danny Boyle (1956- )

Trainspotting28 Days LaterThe BeachSunshineSlumdog Millionaire


John Boorman (1933- )

Point BlankDeliveranceZardozExorcist IIExcaliburHope and GloryBeyond RangoonThe GeneralThe Tailor of PanamaThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz


Terence Davies (1945- )

Distant Voices, Still LivesThe Long Day ClosesHouse of MirthOf Time and the City


Derek Jarman (1942-1994)

SebastianeJubileeThe TempestCaraveggioThe Last of EnglandWar RequiemEdward IIWittgenstein

Film Studies: National Cinemas—ScotlandFilm Studies: National Cinemas—Scotland

Bill Forsyth (1946- )

That Sinking FeelingGregory’s GirlLocal HeroComfort and JoyHousekeepingBeing Human

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Neil Jordan (1950- )

The Company of WolvesMona LisaThe Crying GameInterview with a VampireMichael CollinsIn DreamsThe Good Thief The Butcher BoyThe Brave One

David Lean (1908-1991)

Lawrence of ArabiaDoctor ZhivagoBridge Over the River KwaiA Passage to India



Mike Leigh (1943- )

High HopesLife is SweetNakedSecrets and LiesCareer GirlsTopsy-TurvyVera DrakeHappy-Go-Lucky


Ken Loach (1936- )

Cathy Come HomeKesHidden AgendaBread and RosesMy Name is JoeThe Wind That Shakes the Barley


Merchant/IvoryIsmail Merchant (1936-2005)James Ivory (1928-)

Shakespeare WallahThe EuropeansThe BostoniansA Room with a ViewHowards EndThe Remains of the DayThe Golden Bowl


Sally Potter (1949- )

ThrillerLondon StoryOrlandoThe Tango LessonThe Men Who CriedYesRage


Carol Reed (1906-1976)

The Third ManOur Man in HavanaThe Agony and the EcstasyOliver!


Tony Richardson (1928-1991)

Look Back in AngerA Taste of HoneyThe Loneliness of the Long Distance RunnerTom JonesNed KellyThe Hotel New Hampshire


Guy Ritchie (1968- )

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking BarrelsSnatchSwept AwayRocknRollaSherlock Holmes


Nicholas Roeg (1928- )

WalkaboutPerformanceThe Man Who Fell to EarthDon’t Look NowTrack 29Witches


Ken Russell (1928- )

Women in LoveLiztomaniaTommyAltered StatesSavage MessiahThe Music LoversThe DevilsMahlerValentinoGothicRainbow


Chinese Cinema

China, Film, and the West—In the new cities: Hong Kong, Shanghai (see next slide)Banning Kung Fu to Hong KongSocial Realism (before 1949)/The Operatic/Chinese FolkloreMaoist Realism: Shanghai Steel Factory Increases Productivity by 25%A Movie Date in Shanghai in 1980 (see next slide)New Waves everywhereThe Cultural RevolutionFifth and Sixth GenerationsOpening Up to the WestJudging a Documentary Competition:

http://thelaverytory.blogspot.com/2006/11/remarks-in-china.html

http://thelaverytory.blogspot.com/2006/11/remarks-in-china.html


My Students, East China Normal UniversityShanghai, 1981


ShanghaiThen and Now(1990, 2010)

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Zhang Yimou (1950- )

Red SorghumJu DouRaise the Red LanternShanghai TriadHeroHouse of Flying DaggersA Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop

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Ang Lee (1954- )

The Wedding BouquetEat Drink Man WomanSense and SensibilityThe Ice StormCrouching Tiger, Hidden DragonHulkBrokeback MountainTaking WoodstockLife of Pi


Danish CinemaDogme 95

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“Dogme 95 is an avant-garde filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who created the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vow of Chastity". These were rules to create filmmaking based on the traditional values of story, acting and theme, and excluding the use of elaborate special effects or technology.[1] They were later joined by fellow Danish directors Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, forming the Dogme 95 Collective or the Dogme Brethren. Dogme is the Danish word for dogma.

The genre gained international appeal partly because of its accessibility. It sparked an interest in unknown filmmakers by suggesting that one can make a recognised film without being dependent on commissions or huge Hollywood budgets, depending on European government subsidies and television stations instead. The movement has been criticised for being a disguised attempt to gain media attention. Dogme was initiated to cause a stir and to make filmmakers and audiences re-think the art, effect and essence of filmmaking.”—from Wikipedia

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Lars von Trier (1956- )

Breaking the WavesDancer in the DarkDogvilleManderleyAntichrist

Dr. Linda Badley’s book—Lars von Trier--is forthcoming from U Illinois P


French Cinema

Early prominence.Beneficiary of Hollywood emergence.Rene Clair, Marcel Carne, Jean Vigo, Jean RenoirPoetic RealismThe New Wave (see the next slides)New French CinemaNew French Extremism: French Horror

Nouvelle vague/New Wave

Resnais | Camus | Rohmer | Godard | Malle | Truffaut

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New Wave•The impact of Alexandre Astruc: cinema as “the art of the age”; “camera-stylo” [camera-pen]•André Bazin’s influence [Cahiers du Cinema]•The break with literature•Location shooting•New approach to acting•Independence from studios•The centrality of the director (birth of the “auteur theory”)


Alice Guy (1873-1968)



Luc Besson (1959- )

NikitaLeon (The Professional)The Fifth ElementThe MessengerDistrinct B13Arthur and the Invisibles


Marcel Carne (1906-1996)

Les Enfants du paradis


René Clair (1906-1996)

Entr’acteUn chapeau de paille d’ItalieA nous la liberte

Robert Bresson (1901-1999)

Diary of a Country PriestTrial of Joan of Arc


Jean-Luc Godard (1930- )

BreathlessWeekendThe ChineseMasculine/FeminineTwo or Three Things I Know About Her


Jean-Luc Godard

“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”

“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”

"Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end,’ harrumphed French filmmaker Georges Franju. . . ." "Certainly," replied Jean-Luc Godard. "But not necessarily in that order."


Louis Malle (1932-1995)

The LoversA Very Private AffairMurmur of the HeartPretty BabyAtlantic CityAu revoir les enfantsMy Dinner with AndreDamage


Jean Renoir (1894-1979)

Babu Saved from DrowningRules of the GameGrand Illusion


Alain Resnais (1922- )

Night and FogLast Year at MarienbadHiroshima, Mon AmourMon oncle d'Amérique


Éric Rohmer (1920-2010)

La Collectionneuse (The Collector) Ma Nuit chez Maud (My Night with Maud)Le Genou de Claire (Claire's Knee) L'Amour l'après-midi (Chloe in the Afternoon, Love in the Afternoon) Die Marquise von O... (The Marquise of O)Le Signe du lionLa Femme de l'aviateur (The Aviator's Wife)Le Beau marriage (A Good Marriage)Pauline à la plage (Pauline at the Beach)Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray) Conte de printemps (A Tale of Springtime)Conte d'hiver (A Winter's Tale)Conte d'été (A Summer's Tale) Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale)



Jacques Tati (1907-1982)

Monsieur Hulot on HolidayMon OnclePlaytimeTraficParade

François Truffaut (1932-1984)

400 BlowsJules and JimDay for NightShoot the Piano Player

Role in Close Encounters of theThird Kind



400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)

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Jean Vigo (1905-1934)

Zero de ConduiteL’Atalante


http://67507750.blogspot.com/2010/09/clip-pillow-fight-from-jean-vigos-zero.html


German CinemaF. W. MurnauCabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)German ExpressionismFrom Caligari to Hitler (Siegfried Kracauer)New German CinemaThe Burden of History

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von KantThe Marriage of Maria BraunAli: Fear Eats the SoulEffi BriestDespairBerlin Alexanderplatz


Werner Herzog (1942- )

Even Dwarfs Started SmallAquirre, the Wrath of GodEvery Man for Himself and God Against AllHeart of GlassNosferatuFitzcarraldoGrizzly ManBad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansRescue Dawn

Fritz Lang (1890-1976)

MMetropolisDr. MabuseThe Big HeatClash by NightRancho NotoriousScarlet StreetThe Woman in the Window

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Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003)

Triumph of the WillOlympia


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Tom Tykwer (1965- )

Run, Lola, RunPerfumeThe International


Wim Wenders (1945- )

Alice in the CitiesThe American FriendTokyo-GaThe State of ThingsParis, TexasWings of DesireUntil the End of the WorldBuena Vista Social Club

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National Cinemas

Hong KongIrelandItalyJapanMexicanRussiaSpain


Hong Kong Cinema

Hong Kong’s status in relation to China and Chinese cinemaMain genres: gangster, martial arts, comedyExportable Stars: Jet Li., Michelle Yeoh, Jackie ChanBowfinger (Frank Oz, 1999)Kung-Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004).

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Wong Kar-Wai (1958- )

As Tears Go ByChungking expressIn the Mood for Love2046Eros

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John Woo (1946- )

The KillerBullet in the HeadHard TargetFace/OffMission Impossible 2WindtalkersPaycheck


Irish Cinema

Ireland in relation to EnglandNational cinema: long-time comingFreedom (1920) and then censorshipThe Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)Turn from art film to realism: Sheridan, Jordan


Neil Jordan (1950- )

The Company of WolvesMona LisaThe Crying GameInterview with a VampireMichael CollinsIn DreamsThe Good Thief The Butcher BoyThe Brave One


Jim Sheridan (1949- )

My Left FootThe FieldIn the Name of the FatherThe BoxerIn America

“David Lavery, “The Strange Text of My Left Foot.” Literature/Film Quarterly 21.3 (1993): 194-99.


Italian CinemaEarly flair for the epic—influence on GriffithStars: divi/dive—gods and goddessesSophia Loren (on the right in 1962, 2009)Neo-RealismSpaghetti WesternsMuscular Mythology

Neo-RealismPost-war infatuation with the quotidianA defeated nation’s voiceItaly under allied controlNo real centralized film industryVisual authenticityAgainst dramatic illusionismZavattini’s dream of filming a day in the lifePost-synchronization/dubbing (and Fellini)Lack of box-office appeal—no dramaMarxist tendenciesBuilding a bridge v. crossing a river by stepping on stones


Neo-Realism

“[The neo-realists] are concerned to make cinema the asymptote of reality but in order that it should ultimately be life itself that becomes spectacle, in order that life might in this perfect mirror be visible poetry, be the self into which film finally changes it.”--Andre Bazin, What is Cinema?

Roberto Rossellini | Vittorio De SicaCesare Zavattini | Federico Fellini


Neo-RealismThe Movement’s Chief Theoretician: Cesare Zavattini


Neo-Realism

De Sica and Zavattini


Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007)

L’NotteL’EccliseL’AvventuraBlow-UpZabriskie PointThe PassengerChung Kuo, Cina

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Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977)

Open City


Vittorio de Sica (1902-1974)

Umberto DThe Bicycle Thief


Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)

AccatoneThe DecameronThe Canterbury TalesThe Thousand One NightsThe Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom


Sergio Leone (1929-1989)

The Good, the Bad, and the UglyHigh Plains DrifterA Fistful of DollarsFor a Few Dollars MoreOnce Upon a Time in the WestOnce Upon a Time in America


Luchino Visconti (1906-1976)

The LeopardDeath in Venice


Federico Fellini (1920-1993)I VitelloniIl BidoneThe Nights of CabiriaLa StradaLa Dolce Vita8 1/2Juliet of the SpiritsFellini-SatyriconRomaAmarcord

Fellini Power Point



Japanese CinemaElectric Shadows—first paragraph on 238Is Asian cinema different—as Asian art is differentJapan vs. ChinaWatching the projector—surmounting illusionismThe highly stylizedEarly narrators (intentionally vague—to allow the narrator freedom)Love of the long-take, infatuation with mise-en-sceneHome DramaSeasoning (Cook 239)Modernist or Buddhist? The 2nd World WarJapanese New Wave


One Corner Style/Mu: “the empty space in traditional painting [which] carries deeper Taoist and Buddhist connotations of ‘void’ or infinity” [Cook, 238].

Kenji Mizoguchi (1890-1856)

Ugetsu

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Akira Kurosowa (1910-1998)

ScandalRashomonIkiruSeven SamuraiThrone of BloodThe Hidden FortressYojimboRed BeardKagemusha'RanDreams


Yasujiro Ozu (1930-1963)

Tokyo Story

Ozu “privileges space over narration in ways that include conssitently using a 360 degree shooting space instead of the 180 degree space of classical cinema, foregrounding objects that are not correspondingly important in the narrative, and cutting away to shot ands hot dequences that, while related to narrative, are not motivated by it.”—Bordwell and Thompson



Jūzō Itami (1933-1996)

Ososhiki (The Funeral)TampopoMarusa no Onna (A Taxing Woman)Minbo no Onna (Minbo—or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion)Daibyonin (The Last Dance) (1993)


Mexican Cinema

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Alfonso Cuarón (1961- )

A Little PrincessGreat ExpectationsY tu mamá tambiénHarry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanChildren of Men

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Guillermo Del Toro (1964- )

CronosMimicThe Devil's BackboneHellboyBlade IIPan's LabyrinthThe OrphanageHellboy II: The Golden ArmyAt the Mountains of Madness


Soviet CinemaEarly supremacy: Eisenstein, Pudovkin, VertovWorking under the dictatorship of the proletariatPost-WWII Soviet Cinema: Propaganda vs. ArtThe Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002)

“An unnamed narrator, unseen by the audience and voiced by the director, wanders through the Winter Palace (now the main building of Russian State Hermitage Museum) in Saint Petersburg. The narrator implies that he has died in some horrible accident and is a ghost drifting through the palace. In each room, he encounters various real and fictional people from various time periods in the city's three-hundred-year history. He is accompanied by "the European" (played by Sergei Dreiden), who represents the nineteenth-century French traveller the Marquis de Custine, and who is visible to the audience. The fourth wall is repeatedly broken and re-erected; at times the narrator-director and the companion interact freely with the other performers, and at other times, they go completely unnoticed.” [Wikipedia]

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Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)

Andrei RublevSolarisStalkerVoyage in TimeMirrorNostalghiaThe Sacrifice


Spanish CinemaThe Spanish Civil War and its aftermath

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Pedro Almodóvar (1951- )

Pepi, Luci, BomMatadorLaw of DesireWomen on the Verge of a Nervous BreakdownTie Me Up! Tie Me Down!The Flower of My SecretLive FleshAll About My MotherTalk to HerBad EducationVolverBroken Embraces

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