Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dada, Un Chien Andalou, Surrealism
23 Apr 2014
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Films that deliberately stylize and distort the real world, reform reality, and use techniques to comment on the subject matter, we define as formalist. Like realism, formalism is not an absolute we don"t say that a film is either formalist or it"s not; rather, films range on a continuum from realism to formalism. Surrealism (un chien andalou), dadaism (ballet mechanique) and cubism in. Expressionism in germany: wiene"s films and f. w. murnau"s german films. German expressionism alienation, fragmentation and dehumanization. Looked into the darkest corners of the soul. Interested in sinister and menacing, artists state of mind rather than the reality of the world around them. Began as a painting style in the late-19th/early-20th centuries. Responding to a psychic disorientation in germany. Representing the world as corrupt and insane. Doesn"t make direct references to the government you must make your own interpretations.
