FILMM-AD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kuselan, French New Wave, Soviet Montage Theory
9 Jun 2016
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Emerge as a distinct type of filmmaking in the 1920"s. Avant-garde films differentiated from mainstream cinema by using distinct aesthetic, and mode of production-usually independent, beyond the studio system. Goal: wanted cultural cinema equal to other arts in seriousness and depth. Films made by diverse group of filmmakers and artists. Often in opposition to conventions of commercial cinema. Influenced by lighting and montage seen in soviet montage and german expressionism. A military term meaning the vanguard or first wave of soldiers. First used to describe aesthetic groups immediately before and after the war. Now means new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them. or an intelligentsia that develops new or experimental concepts especially in the arts. Films produced in tandem with newly published film theory. Pluralism of its members theoretical approaches to cinema was important feature of the movement.
