Film 101 Mansour Week 4 – The Foreign Film (400 Blows, 1959) French New Wave (1959-1964) BREAKDOWN FROM CH 10 READING Origins Early French Cinema of 1930’s A period of Poetic realism which meant treating everyday life with emotional sensitivity, showing us how the hardships or highs/lows are supposed to FEEL Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher with existentialist philosophies: Artists should rebel against societal constraints Responsibility for their own actions Create their own world Alexander
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Bonnie and Clyde retains several direct links to Breathless: its influence can be felt in the editing of Bonnie’s bedroom scenes, where nervous jump-cuts suggest her sexual restlessness; in the headlong driving scenes, conveying the exhilaration of the open road; in the exciting acceptance of mistakes, as when a fight spills out of frame and the camera must scurry to catch up. As if to openly state it’s a relationship to Godard’s film, Bonnie and Clyde replicates the scene in Breathless where Michel
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non-rapid eye movement (NREM), which involves slow wave sleep (SWS, stage 3 and 4) and the others is lighter sleep which occurs on stage 1 and 2. First, stage 1 When we are preparing to drift off, we go though Alpha and Theta, and have periods of dreaminess, almost like daydreaming, except we are beginning to fall asleep. These are interesting states, in that we experience them throughout the day and some people may have more of these waves than others. Those who practice meditation, or deep
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buoyancy. A cousin from California sent him a copy of the SURFER magazine and sought contact with a shaper of a big California surfboard brand. After communicating through letters, Arthur Pauli learned the essentials of surfboard building and ocean wave surfing. After being told that surfboards were built with polyurethane foam, he created the first foam-and-resin-board, perhaps the first longboard made in
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Nuit et brouillard is primarily a film about the memory of the Holocaust than about the Holocaust itself During World War II, France woefully surrendered itself to the Nazi Regime. This new government, led by Henri-Philippe Pétain, was soon to implement Hitler’s anti-Semitic laws and, consequently, France became involved in an event recognised worldwide as the ‘systematic mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazis’ – the Holocaust. Following the end of the war, Charles de Gaulle hastily recovered
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Winnie Wong Writing 140 Maggie Flynn 4th October 2012 Assignment #2 Most Effective Essay: “SlutWalks and the Future of Feminism.” by Jessica Valenti Slut. This attention-grabbing noun is used throughout the world in the continuing feminist protest that has started since May 2011: Slutwalks. It all began when Michael Sanguinetti, a Toronto police constable, made a statement on how women should not “dress like sluts” in order to be safe from being sexually assaulted at a safety forum
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I assumed since the first wave, feminist issues had really improved and I was surprised to learn they had not. According to the Gender Gap Report, Canadians have fallen from a previous rank of seven all the way down into the twentieth position, which is below the United States. After watching the video, I wondered what exactly was the purpose of this documentary? I understood the goal of the film was to look at women in three areas: in the home, in the workplace and in politics. The film made a
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Cinematic Innovations in A Bout de Soufflé A bout de soufflé by Jean-Luc Godard (1960) is full of new attempts both in its form and contents as he made it with such intention: A Bout de Soufflé was the sort of film where anything goes: that was what it was all about. … What I wanted was to take a conventional story and remake, but differently, everything the cinema had done. Apparently, the film has novel, innovative features in almost every aspect of cinema including shooting, editing, narrative
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Furthermore, many essential concepts and characteristic techniques of the New Wave can be found in Cleo From 5 To 7 by Agnes Varda. French New Wave was spearheaded by the people who wanted more realistic representation of lives in the films. The story took place in the 2 hours when Cleo, a pop singer, decides to retrieve some test result from the hospital. As Peter Graham pointed out, the whole film was shot in “real time” (Graham, 578).The camera follows her in the crowd on the busy streets, and
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society. Most feminists also see gender relationships as being based on conflict and exploitation of women by men. They believe that much of the culture has been shaped by men and neglects the contribution that women have made in society. First wave The first wave of feminism emerged in the mide-1800s aiming to change the social and legal inequalities effecting women to achieve universal female suffrage, which is the right to vote for all women. It was led by middle-class women, known as the suffragettes
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