Wednesday 13 October 2010

Film styles

What is an 'auteur'?

An auteur is a director, who over a body of work, retains creative control and uses a series of similar themes and different kinds of style that make it very easy to the audience, e.g. Steven Spielberg, Takashi Miike.

What is 'Cinema Verite'?

Cinema Verite is a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director. For example A movie was made in 2009 called Paranormal Activity. This movie was shot in a naturalistic documentary way.

what is an 'avant- garde film'?

Experimental film or experimental cinema describes a range of film making styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary film making. Avant-garde" is also used to describe this work, and underground has been used in the past, though it. While "experimental" covers a wide range of practice.

What is 'film noir'?

A movie that is marked by a mood of menace, and cynical characters; "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s".

What is 'French new wave' about?

The New Wave french: was a blanket term coined by critics for a group offrench maker of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian neutralism and classical Holly Wood cinema.

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