POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Claude Chabrol, Italian Neorealism, French New Wave

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Hudson Moura

Document Summary

Art and political aesthetics: story is most important for classical cinema, realism is important for modern cinema, french created a new approach to film. La nouvelle vague (the new wave: a term coined by critics for a group of french film critics/filmmakers of the late. Style: many filmmakers also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with, editing (jump cut, visual style, (improvisatory) narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm. New wave characteristics: emerges in the late 1950s, many new wave movements, rejection of studio bound filmmaking, director as artist (auteur, youth, energy spontaneity, laissez faire, rejection of narrative and style. Mise en scene: location shooting, non-professional actors, open ended narrative, self-referential, breakdown of taboos, audience willing to view new type of film reflecting the speed of modern life.