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Europe after WWI

Industry lagged

behind Certainty of pre-war

times challenged inmatters of class, art,

spirituality &politically

Unemployment in the Weimar Republic

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Russia

Lev Kuleshov the

Father of SovietCinema and theKuleshov Effect

The viewers

interpretation isdetermined bycontext (orsequence)

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European Cinema

Russia

Influence of Lenin

and the Revolution Filmmakers such as

Vsevolod Pudovkinand SergeiEisenstein

Eisensteins Battleship Potemkin

(1925) & Pudovkins Mother(1926)

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Montage

1. A synonym for editing.

2. An approach to editing

developed by the Sovietfilmmakers of the 1920ssuch as Pudovkin andEisenstein; it emphasizesdynamic, oftendiscontinuous,

relationships betweenshots and the juxtapositionof images to create ideasnot present in either shotby itself

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France

Abel Gance

Wildly experimentalin form & length

Napoleon(1927)

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Germany

Huge influence on

American Cinema asso many filmmakersfled the Nazis

Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang,Billy Wilder, Robert Siodmak

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Expressionism: atheory or practice inart of seeking todepict the subjectiveemotions andresponses thatobjects and events

arouse in the artist

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Not about realism

Visually expressingthe inner emotion,psychology &spirituality

Distorted reality foremotional effect

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Film

Robert Wienes

The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari(1919) Sets are distorted,

artificial, shadowy,and disorienting.

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Expressionismheavily influencedfilm noir& Hitchcock,

Welles and manyother directors

The Maltese Falcon,The Wrong Man,,Citizen Kane & Childrenof Men

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The WeimarRepublic, 1919-

1933 Economic difficulty

combined withthriving arts scene

Threepenny Opera & Burning Currency for Warmth

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Universum Film AG

F.W. Murnau

G.W. Pabst Fritz Lang

Josef von Sternberg

Billy Wilder

Lotte Reiniger

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Most successful,artistically & financially

Famous for collaborationwith American actressLouise Brooks

Pandoras Box(1928)

Diary of a Lost Girl(1929)

Returned to Germany &

made films during thewar which proved aproblem later

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Josef von Sternberg,1894-1969 The Blue Angel, 1930

First German talkieEnglish and Germanversion shot at the sametime

Gave us Marlene Dietrich

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Lotte Reiniger,1889-1981

Silhouette animator Oldest surviving

animated feature film

The Adventures of Prince Achmed(1926)

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European Cinema

Ernst Lubitsch, 1882-1947 Sophisticated

comedies European sensibility

Relied on the raisedeyebrow and not thespecifics

Ninotchka, Three Women & The Shop Around the Corner

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The Lubitsch Touch

Billy Wilder always kept asign hanging in his office

that asked, "How wouldLubitsch do it?

At his funeral, Billy Wildernoted: "No moreLubitsch." William Wyler

answered: "Worse thanthat - no more Lubitschfilms."

Some Like it Hot

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European Cinema

Fritz Lang, 1890-1976

Started as artist

Went into the film

business at UFA Broke out with Destiny

(1920) & Dr Mabuse, theGambler(1921)

Went on to a long career

in Hollywood

Vital in the developmentof film noir

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European Cinema

Metropolis 1927

Ground-breaking Science

Fiction Bankrupted studio

1/4 film lost until recently -Additional footage found avault in Brazil

Original version has notbeen seen since premierealthough with the foundfootage, the film is nowonly missing about 10minutes

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European Cinema

Blade Runner

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European Cinema

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European Cinema

"Schufftan Process

Angled mirrors tocombine miniatureswith actors

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European Cinema

F.W. Murnau, 1888-1931 Emigrated to Hollywood in

1926

Sunrise(1927) filmed inMovietone Sound on Film -music and effects only

Breakthrough process &tracking shots

Special Academy Award for

Best Picture, Unique andArtistic Production

Sunrise, 1927

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European Cinema Nosferatu(1922)

The Last Laugh(1924)

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Making of Nosferatufictionalized in Shadow of theVampire, 2000 with JohnMalkovich as Murnau &

Willem Dafoe as MaxSchreck