Poetic Realism in Film. 1. Poetic realism was a film movement in France of the 1930s and through the war years. Its leading filmmakers were Jean Renoir,

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

AS Level Media Studies. Mise-en-scene A French term meaning what is put into a scene or frame. Visual information in front of the camera. Communicates.

Advertisements

What are the main subject areas of interest in this film and what are the main themes and ideas being addressed? Could it be said that there are certain.

Corrigan, T. (2001). A short guide to writing about film (4 th ed.). New York: Longman.

Film Noir Guy, Mica, Sam, Shanel. Origin Classic film noir started after the second world war. Much of the fear, mistrust, bleakness, loss of innocence,

Gattaca Film techniques.

FILM LANGUAGE Stories told on film are often very powerful. As an audience we connect with the characters presented to us and feel along with them as.

A Single Man by Tom Ford Film Aesthetics: Formalism and Realism.

Film Analysis Moneyball.

Mise-en-scene from French mettre – “to place, put” refers to the visual arrangement of items on screen BUT, mise-en-scene also takes into account how those.

The Thirties: The Golden Age of French Cinema Patricia L. Pecoy, Ph.D. MLL 235.

By Dylan and Ethan ‘Gone with the wind’ ‘Citizen Kane’ ‘Casablanca’

Mise-en-Scene “putting into the scene” Setting, Costume, Makeup, Lighting, Staging and Performance (Acting and Movement) HUM 110: Intro to American Film.

‘Juno’ (2007), Dir. Jason Reitman

1930s French Cinema and Jean Renoir’s La Règle du jeu.

Lighting and Colour Lighting helps convey mood and atmosphere guides the audience’s attention to what is important conceals other elements in shadow,

AS Media Studies: Mise-en-scene We are learning to: Understand the concept of ‘mise en scene’ Apply the concept to analysing a piece of print-based media.

Realism & Naturalism.

Hollywood in the 1930s, Poetic Realism, Japanese Cinema in the 1930s Jaakko Seppälä

ALTERNATIVES IN THE SOUND ERA FRANCE : POETIC REALISM, THE POPULAR FRONT, & THE OCCUPATION.

Realism and Beyond Genres and Movements in 20 th Century American Drama.

American Literature Realism, Regionalism and Naturalism Realism, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape.

Realist fiction: Social Realism ENG 201 Introduction to Literature Prof. Everson.

FILM INTRO The Power & Components of Film. Last Week’s Objectives  Become familiar with a variety of internet tools  Become familiar with social media’s.

Stage-designing should be addressed to [the] eye of the mind. There is an outer eye that observes, and there is an inner eye that sees. —Robert Edmond.

Week 1 - Lecture Interactive Digital Moving Image Production | CU3003NI | - Pratik Man Singh Pradhan.

Early European Film Movements Jean Renoir: Early French Cinema.

Learning Objective: To understand and explore the term ‘mise-en-scene’.

Classical Realist Texts: American Films between 1916 and 1960 Mise-en-scène.

Classical Realist Texts: American Films between 1916 and 1960 Mise-en-scène.

Light and Dark Styles of Lighting Matches theme, mood, genre Intensity, direction, and quality of lighting have a profound effect on the way an image is.

What is Film Noir? ‘The world doesn’t make any heroes any more’. The Third Man.

Film Theory What Films Do.

Gattaca Film techniques.

 ANALYZING FILM In most narrative filmmaking, everything you see is designed to produce a precise graphic or pictorial effect. Everything is motivated.

France: Poetic Realism, Jean Renoir, and the Popular Front 1930s Lecture 21.

International Baccalaureate Film Studies “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.” – Jean-Luc Godard.

Studying films Revision for The Woman in Black. What makes a film? There are lots of important techniques used to make films interesting to watch. Meaning.

>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> MISE-EN-SCÈNE By Ms. Vicki Anderson.

Realist Film Movements Neorealismo (2) Films of Vittoria De Sica.

Style. The most striking technical feature of Spielberg’s feature film is the use of black- and-white photography. For a Hollywood blockbuster movie this.

Critique Chapter 11 By: Mary Flynn, Rachel Taylor.

Working with Cinematic Techniques. Film Analysis  Much like how a writer uses stylistic devices to achieve specific effects in their writing, directors.

Photography Unit Two. Shot The amount of subject matter that’s included within the frame of the screen Determined on the basis of how much of the human.

Classical Realist Texts: American Films between 1916 and 1960 Mise-en-scène.

RAM – Fall audience members actively construct meaning from the narrative we negotiate a shared experience: the filmmaker’s story (the story told.

EMS3O - Film Introduction to Film Language Mise En Scene.

Space. Space Depth, proximity, size and proportions of the places and objects in a film can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, lighting,

Lighting Jessica Stults Betty Gonzalez Matthew Ortiz.

II. Mise en Scene / Intro to Cinematography Me-zaun-sen.

Learning Objective: To understand and explore the term ‘mise-en-scene’.

Gattaca Film techniques. Mise en Scene  pronounced “meez aun sen”  French term meaning ‘staging the action’. Refers to all the visual elements within.

Screenplay.  The screenwriter composes all of the dialogue and action of a film  They establish the story  However, the story or dialogue may be altered.

Camera looks UP at the subject… These types of shots usually make the subject look larger, more imposing, and in control. Usually makes the audience feel.

Do Now Pick up a vocabulary sheet and review the documentary vocabulary words.

Lighting and Early Days of Film In the early days, Thomas Edison developed a camera that weighed over 500 pounds! It was called a Kinetoscope and required.

Re-enactments Do these compromise the veracity of documentary film?

Thriller Genre By Harry Thorpe and Luke Rowland. Definition Thriller is a genre of media, in which suspension, tension and excitement are used as key.

The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced.

Film Studies Visual Literacy

The Shawshank Redemption

STUFF TO KNOW BEFORE WATCHING TOUCH OF EVIL

Film Studies Need to Know (Or what I should have gotten 1st Semester)

Investigating mise-en-scène

Scene Composition (mis-en-scene)

Understanding Mise En Scene

The Street Film.

FILM Key Terms.

Presentation transcript:

Poetic Realism in Film

1. Poetic realism was a film movement in France of the 1930s and through the war years. Its leading filmmakers were Jean Renoir, Pierre Chenal, Jean Vigo, Julien Duvivier, and Marcel Carné. Frequent stars of these films were Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Simone Signoret, and Michèle Morgan.

2. Poetic realism films are "recreated realism" They usually have a fatalistic view of life with their characters living on the margins of society, either as unemployed members of the working class or as criminals. “La Chienne”

Poetic Realist films featured pessimistic narratives and night-time settings, and a dark, contrasting visual style pre-figuring American film noir. “Le Jour se Lève”

3.The major themes of Poetic Realism are bitterness, disappointment, disillusionment, and nostalgia. They can be seen as a social critique of lower-class conditions and a general part of the ominous atmosphere in France before World War II. “Le Jour se Leve”

The “poetic” in Poetic Realism refers to the exaggeration and aestheticism of romance, doomed romance, and lower-class squalor that draws attention to uncomfortable truths about society. Pépé le Moko

4. The goal of poetic realism was to distill the essence of situations rather than to merely record them faithfully. The tools for revealing underlying meanings with hyper-authenticity included careful design of scene, framing, lighting and shadows, layers of the camera's visual field, camera positions and movements, and, of course, the performances.

In Port of Shadows (Le Quai des brumes), for example, fog is used in all of the outdoor scenes to create a kind of mythic, other worldly atmosphere. The skies are overcast as well and the sets subtly suggest a world of fantasy and tragic destiny.

5.The doomed universe of Poetic Realist films was said to reflect the gloomy morale of the immediate pre- war years (1930s). An important aspect of Poetic Realism is its rejection of the happy ending, which was so common in Hollywood movies at the time. Poetic Realist filmmakers distanced themselves from their Hollywood rivals. Port of Shadows was so bleak and depressing in its outlook that the French government and military took to saying, "If we've lost the war, blame it on Quai des Brumes."

Major Tenets Of Poetic Realism 1. Heavily Imagistic Pépé le Moko (1937) by Julien Duvivier

2. Characterized by a deep social pessimism “Le Jour se Leve” (Daybreak) - Marcel Carne (1939)

3. The most tangible quality is the sense of anxiety and finality “Le Jour se Leve” - Marcel Carne (1939)

4. Atmosphere dominates these films Le Quai des brumes(Port of Shadows) (1938) by Marcel Carné

5. All focused on the individual against the background of poverty, crime and violence Pépé le Moko (1937) by Julien Duvivier

6. Destructive blend of words and images La Chienne (1931) Jean Renoir

7. Aimed to illuminate the invisible lying within the normally visible world. Le Quai des brumes (1938) by Marcel Carné

8.A mixture of realism and symbolism Marcel Carné’s Le Jour se Lève

9. Dignified the image of the working class Le Jour se Lève