Topic
V 1 National Film Academies
* 1.1 Soviet Union: All-Union State Institute of Cinematography
* 1.2 Italy: cinecitta
* 1.3 France
V 2 International Film Festivals
* 2.1 Venice (1932)
* 2.2 Cannes (1946)
* 2.3 Berlin (1951)
* 2.4 San Francisco (1957)
* 2.5 London (1957)
* 2.6 Moscow (1959)
* 2.7 New York (1963)
* 2.8 Chicago (1965)
* 2.9 Panama (1965)
* 2.10 Brisbane (1966)
* 2.11 Shiraz, Iran (1967)
V 3 Awareness of the History of Film
* 3.1 Cinémathèque Française, Paris
* 3.2 National Film Theater, London
* 3.3 Museum of Modern Art, New York
V 4 Filmmaking Father Figures
* 4.1 Jean Renoir in France
* 4.2 Fritz Lang in Germany
* 4.3 Alexander Dovzhenko in Soviet Union
* 4.4 Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks in Hollywood
V 5 New Technologies
* 5.1 smaller cameras
* 5.2 reflex viewfinders
* 5.3 faster film stock
* 5.4 cheap, quick, more flexible
V 6 New Wave Cinemas
* 6.1 Italy
* 6.2 Germany
* 6.3 Soviet Union
V 6.4 Eastern Europe
* Poland
* Czechoslovakia
* Yugoslavia
* Hungary
* 6.5 Japan
* 6.6 Great Britain's "Kitchen Sink"
V 7 Film Aesthetics
V Direct Cinema influenced cinematography
* shooting from a distance
* using panning shots
* zoom lenses
V editing
V fragmentary discontinuous editing
* Breathless
V collage form
* found footage
* Persona
* plan sequence (sequence shot)
V narrative form
V chance events that could not be fitted into a linear cause-and-effect
* non-professional actors
* real locations
* improvised performance
V flashbacks
* mental imagery
V Directors
* objective realism
* subjective realism
* authorial commentary
V Reflexivity
* self-referential
* internal realities of the film
* pointed to its own materials, structures, and history
V the making of a film within a film
* 8 1/2
V 8 French film industry
V 8.1 1958: domestic film attendance declined significantly
* big budget films failed
V 8.2 Centre National du Cinema (1953)
* subsidy ("prime de la qualité")
* avance sur reciepts
* created new generation of filmmakers
V 9 France's New Generation
* 9.1 apolitical culture of consumption and leisure
* 9.2 read film journals
* 9.3 attended cine-club screenings
V 9.4 Two filmmaking groups
* Nouvelle Vague
* Rive Gauche
V 10 Cahiers du Cinema
V 10.1 film critics
* Andre Bazin
* Claude Chabrol
* Éric Rohmer
* François Truffaut
* Jean-Luc Godard
* 10.2 believed filmmakers should articulate a personal vision
V 11 Nouvelle Vague of Filmmakers
V 11.1 early films
* Le Beau Sarge (Claude Chabrol, 1958)
* Le Cousins (Claude Chabrol, 1959)
* 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
* Breathless (Jean Luc Godard, 1959)
V 11.2 Venice Film Festival (1960)
* gained international promimence
V 12 financial constraints, creative solutions
* 12.1 shot on location
* 12.2 portable film equipment
* 12.3 little-known actors
* 12.4 small crews
V 12.5 individual filmmaking styles
* personal vision was essential
V 13 Resonance with Young Audiences
* 13.1 filmmakers born around 1930
V 13.2 concentrated in Paris
* chic fashions
* sports cars
* hip nightlife
* 13.3 distrust of authority
* 13.4 suspicious of commitment
* 13.5 featured femme fatale character
V 13.6 reference to prior film traditions
* film history was a living presence
* Breathless hero imitates Humphrey Bogart
* 400 Blows stealing a production from a Bergman film
V 14 Rive Gauche group
* 14.1 older and less degree cinephiles
V 14.2 cinema was like literature
* Alexandre Astruc: camera stylo
* 14.3 experimental in formal style
* 14.4 influenced by political left
* 14.5 responsible for cinema verité movement
V 15 Rive Gauche filmmakers
* 15.1 Chris Marker
* 15.2 Jacques Demi
* 15.3 Alain Renais
* 15.4 Agnès Varda
V 16 Hiroshima Mon Amour
* 16.1 Alain Renais
* 16.2 juxtaposition of present with the past
V 17 Cleo from 5 to 7
* Agnès Varda
V combines
* Left Bank formalism
* New Wave hipness