Monday, February 7, 2011

Film Language

- An auteur is a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works.

- Cinéma vérité is a style of documentary filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic devices of editing and camerawork, staged set-ups, and the use of the camera to provoke subjects. It is also known for taking a provocative stance toward its topics.

- Avant garde film is experimental film or experimental cinema describes a range of filmmaking styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary filmmaking.

- Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.

- French new wave is a group of film makers in the 1940's and 50's that presented the idea of distruction of culture, depicting political upheavels and the like in their short films.

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