Modernist film

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Modernist film is related to the art and philosophy of modernism.

History[]

It came to maturity in the eras between WWI and WWII with characteristics such as montage, symbolic imagery, expressionism and surrealism (featured in the works of Luis Buñuel, Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock)[1] while Postmodernist film – similar to postmodernism as a whole – is a reaction to the modernist works of its field, and to their tendencies (such as nostalgia and angst).[2] Modernist cinema, "explored and exposed the formal concerns of the medium by placing them at the forefront of consciousness. Modernist cinema questions and made visible the meaning-production practices of film."[3] The auteur theory and idea of an author producing a work from his singular vision guided the concerns of modernist film. "To investigate the transparency of the image is modernist but to undermine its reference to reality is to engage with the aesthetics of postmodernism."[4][5] The modernist film has more faith in the author, the individual, and the accessibility of reality itself (and more sincere in tone[6]) than the postmodernist film.

List of notable modernist films[]

  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
  • Rashomon (1950)
  • L'Avventura (1960; also been called a postmodernist film)
  • Un Chien Andalou (1929)
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  • The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
  • L'age d'Or (1930)
  • Detour (1945)
  • Shock Corridor (1963)
  • Experiment in Terror (1962)
  • Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
  • Out of the Past (1947)
  • Accident (1967)
  • Gilda (1946)
  • The Killers (1946)
  • The Great Dictator (1940)
  • Ballet Mecanique (1923)
  • The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
  • Report (1967)
  • Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
  • Cat People (1942)
  • Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
  • Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
  • Rome Open City (1945)
  • The Crowd (1928)
  • The Apu trilogy (1955-1959)
  • Metropolis (1927)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • The Last Laugh (1924)
  • Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927)
  • Breathless (1960)
  • Pierrot le Fou (1965)
  • Andrei Rublev (1966)
  • Blowup (1966; also been called a postmodernist film)
  • La Strada (1954)
  • All That Heaven Allows (1955)
  • The Bicycle Thieves (1949)
  • Gerald McBoing Boing (1950)
  • The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
  • Mr. Klein (1976)
  • Wild Strawberries (1957)
  • The Seventh Seal (1956)
  • Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
  • The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
  • The Naked City (1948)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Two Happy Hearts (1932)
  • Manhatta (1921)
  • The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  • A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
  • Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
  • 8½ (1963; also been called a postmodernist film)
  • The Mirror (1975)
  • Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
  • Apple in the River (1974)
  • Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  • La dolce vita (1960)
  • Magnificent Obsession (1954)
  • Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
  • The 400 Blows (1959)
  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1961)
  • Play Time (1967)
  • Stagecoach (1939)
  • The Third Man (1949)
  • Rebecca (1940)

List of notable modernist filmmakers[]

  • Shirley Clarke
  • Ida Lupino
  • Yasujiro Ozu
  • Satyajit Ray
  • Maya Deren
  • William Greaves
  • Sam Fuller
  • Alain Renais
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Nicholas Ray
  • Douglas Sirk (also been called a postmodernist filmmaker)
  • Luis Bunuel
  • Orson Welles
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Akira Kurosawa
  • Robert Bresson
  • Federico Fellini
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Jules Dassin
  • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Stan Brakhage
  • Fritz Lang
  • Norman McLaren
  • Len Lye
  • Jacques Tourneur
  • François Truffaut
  • Tony Richardson
  • John Ford
  • Tex Avery
  • John and Faith Hubley
  • Joseph Losey
  • Jacques Tati
  • John Cassavetes
  • Blake Edwards
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Michelangelo Antonioni

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See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Characteristics of a Modernist Film|Our Pastimes
  2. ^ Beyond the subtitle: remapping European art cinema: Betz, Mark - Internet Archive (pg.34)
  3. ^ Beginning Postmodernism, Manchester University Press: 1999 by Tim Woods
  4. ^ Dragan Milovanovic. "Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodern Thought". American Society of Criminology.
  5. ^ "Reading the Postmodern Image: A Cognitive Mapping," Screen: 31, 4 (Winter 1990) by Tony Wilson
  6. ^ The Case for Douglas Sirk as the First Postmodern Filmmaker|Collider
  7. ^ Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema by Ted Perry - Google Books
  8. ^ Modernism and Film - Cinema and Media Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
  9. ^ Project MUSE - Modernism and the Cinema: Metropolis and the Expressionist Aesthetic
  10. ^ Vertigo - Cinema and Media Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
  11. ^ "Modernism and Citizen Kane" by George R. Robinson - BMCC
  12. ^ The Big Sleep: Cinema and Modernism > National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  13. ^ German Cinema, 1920-1930 — Modernism Lab
  14. ^ Satre, the Philosophy of Nothingness, and the Modern Melodrama - ANDRÁS BÁLINT KOVÁCS, Department of Film, ELTE University Budapest, Hungary
  15. ^ Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity —— Edward Dimendberg|Harvard University Press
  16. ^ Cinema and modernism - The British Library
  17. ^ The forgotten glamour and modernism of 1930s Italian cinema sets – Museum Crush
  18. ^ Modernism, Montage, and Social Commentary in Early City Films — Indiana University Cinema
  19. ^ Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics in the Age of the New Deal
  20. ^ How Chantal Akerman's modernist masterpiece changed cinema - BBC Culture
  21. ^ Screening Modernism —— Cineaste Magazine
  22. ^ Anthology Film Archives : Film Screenings
  23. ^ American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray (Suny Series) (Paperback)|University Press Books/Berkeley
  24. ^ Sirk/Fassbinder: Melodrama Mutations|White City Cinema
  25. ^ Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity on JSTOR
  26. ^ Battleship Potemkin makes us strong|World cinema|The Guardian
  27. ^ American Stranger - Google Books
  28. ^ Key avant-garde films from the roaring '20s :: September 2011 :: Cassone
  29. ^ The sad and the beautiful : Val Lewton and Vincette Minnelli at the Stanford Theatre|The Stanford Daily
  30. ^ Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema - Indiana University Press
  31. ^ THE WORK OF IDA LUPINO EARNS SOME OVERDUE PRAISE - Chicago Tribune
  32. ^ Table of Contents: Masterpieces of modernist cinema/ - Villanova University
  33. ^ Modernity: A Film by Alfred Hitchcock — Senses of Cinema
  34. ^ Established Modernism, 1962-1966 - Chicago Scholarship
  35. ^ “ ‘Saved from the Blessings of Civilization’: Stagecoach, the West, and American Vernacular Modernism” - Michael Valdez Moses, Duke University
  36. ^ Yasujiro Ozu: 10 essential films|BFI
  37. ^ The Rashomon Effect|The Current|The Criterion Collection
  38. ^ A Quickie Look at the Life & Career of Tex Avery - Bright Lights Film Journal
  39. ^ Tex Avery: Arch-Radicalizer of the Hollywood Cartoon - Bright Lights Journal
  40. ^ That's All, Folks - The Washington Post
  41. ^ The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation History - Vulture
  42. ^ The Cartoon Renegades - The New York Times
  43. ^ Alternative Visions: Animation|BAMPFA
  44. ^ Independent Spirits: Faith Hubley/John Hubley (2003) - Turner Classic Movies
  45. ^ Animators of Film and Television - Google Books (pg.15; chapter titled "John Hubley: The Modernist")
  46. ^ Amit Chaudhuri on Satyajit Ray's very Indian modernity: Not a 'beginning' as much as a 'fruition' - Scroll.in
  47. ^ Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray - Google Books (pg.195)
  48. ^ The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren — Senses of Cinema
  49. ^ The world of Len Lye|Govett-Brewster Art Gallery|Len Lye Centre
  50. ^ "Pretty Good for the 21st Century||Keep It Moving?
  51. ^ Film and Literary Modernism - Google Books
  52. ^ The Third Man. Noir goes abroad|by Max Fedyk|Medium
  53. ^ The Development of a Modernist Narrative in Selected Film of Joseph Losey - CORE
  54. ^ Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism on JSTOR
  55. ^ Ten Great Movies for Placemakers —— Project for Public Spaces
  56. ^ Black & White & Noir: American Pulp Modernism - Google Books (pgs.11-12)
  57. ^ In the Modernist Mirror: Jacques Tati and the Parisian Landscape on JSTOR
  58. ^ The Case for Douglas Sirk as the First Postmodern Filmmaker|Collider
  59. ^ The Films of John Cassavetes - Google Books
  60. ^ The Daring, Original, and Overlooked "Symbiopyschotaxiplasm: Take One"|The New Yorker
  61. ^ Blake Edwards's 'The Great Race' and 'The Party' - The New York Times
  62. ^ The Bitter Essence of Blake Edwards|Screening the Past
  63. ^ Filmmuseum - Program SD
  64. ^ Hard Clarity, Vaporous Ambiguity: The Fusion of Realism and Modernism in Antonioni's early 1960s Films - Senses of Cinema
  65. ^ Modernist Master: Michelangelo Antonioni | BAMPFA
  66. ^ Mr. Klein (1976)|The Criterion Collection
  67. ^ Mr. Klein | BAMPFA

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