Film styles and Movements - Cinematic Boundaries
Film styles and Movements - Cinematic Boundaries
List of different film Movements
- French new wave
- Italian Neo-realism
- Soviet montage
- German expressionism
- Free cinema
- British New wave
- Dogme 95
- Mexican new wave cinema
Film styles
- Avant Garde
- Experimental film and cinema
- Documentary - Cinema Vérité
- Arthouse
- Noir
- Anime
French New Wave
- La Nouvelle Vague
- Emerged in the late 1950s
- Characterised by tis own rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions
- Experimentation within the spirit of iconoclasm
- Iconoclasm - Social belief of the destruction of icons and other images and monuments related to politics or religion
- New wave filmmakers explored new editing approaches as well as visual style, narrative and engagement in the social and political changes
- Use of irony or explores existential themes
- Considered the most influential
- Auteurs: François Truffaut Alan Resnais Jean Luc-Godard Jacques Rivette Agnès Varda
Italian Neo-Realism
- Neorealismo
- Between the years 1943-1952
- National film movement
- Characterised by stories set amongst the lower classes (poor and working)
- Frequently filmed on location
- Uses non-professional actors which allows the spectators to focus on the story rather than the actor
- Contend with the difficult economic and moral conditions of a post World War II world
- Represents the changes int he Italian psych and conditions of every day life
- Themes of poverty, oppression, injustice and desperation
- Rejects melodrama of theatre
British New Wave
- Between the years 1959-1963
- A lot of stylistic similarities with French new wave
- Usually in black and white
- Often shot in a documentary kind of style - pseudo-documentary
- Capture life as it happens - on location with real people instead of extras
- Overlap with ‘angry young men’
- Challenged the status quo
- Drew attention to the life of the working class especially in North England
- ‘Kitchen sink realism’
Film Movements
Often emerge from an earlier cinematic trend - to rebel, disrupt, recreate or replace
Precipitated by: artistic factors - wanting to do something new with cinema as a medium
Wider contextual factors - social, political, upheaval, wider political movements influencing art and cinema, material factors - funding - often impacted by social or political transformations
Kes - Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aabrXxnvTpU
The film Kes features many aspects and characteristic of the British New Wave cinema. There is a sense of realism throughout this clip specifically as it has quite a relatable setting which is built through the use of mise-en-scene. You’re placed in a British school, there is uniforms, and you’re in the headmasters office. This could be seen as quite a working - lower class setting as its not any fancy private school or anything, just your average secondary school. Furthermore, the accent and dialogue used strengthens the idea that there children are from working/lower class families. The Yorkshire dialect used isn’t something that you would hear coming from higher class families. The clip shows conflict between the older generation (the teacher) and the younger generation (Students) which is still present today regardless of what social class you come from most of the time.
Cinematic Boundaries
Rebels on screen
Black Lives Matter
‘Transgression on the screen’
Selma Presentation
Ella, excellent and comprehensive overview of our work on film movements with a sustained and analytical focus on the BNW. Your work on Kes identifies a range of ideas which contextualise the film and director within the new direction in British filmmaking- and the ways in which big screen and small screen narratives reflected new social groups, the working classes, children's point of view. Good to see your work on Selma uploaded and the framework of rebels, BLM and 'cinematic boundaries' included here.
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