Modernist film
Modernist film is related to the art and philosophy of modernism.
History[edit]
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[edit]
- 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)
- Pierrot Le Fou (1965, also been called a postmodernist film)
- The Killers (1946)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- Ballet Mecanique (1923)
- Duck Amuck (1953; also been called a postmodernist film)
- The Color of Pomegranates (1969; also been called a postmodernist film)
- Report (1967)
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- Cat People (1942)
- Last Year at Marienbad (1961; also been called a postmodernist film)
- 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; also been called a postmodernist film)
- 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; also been called a postmodernist film)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- The Third Man (1949)
- Rebecca (1940)
List of notable modernist filmmakers[edit]
- Shirley Clarke
- Ida Lupino
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Satyajit Ray
- Maya Deren
- William Greaves
- Sam Fuller
- Alain Renais (also been called a postmodernist filmmaker)
- 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 (also been called a postmodernist filmmaker)
- 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 (also been called a postmodernist filmmaker)
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See also[edit]
- Minimalist film
- Maximalist film
- European art cinema
- Film noir
- Classical Hollywood cinema
- Melodrama
- Auteur theory
- B movie
- Art film
- World cinema
- Golden age of American animation
- Independent animation
- Limited animation
- A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
References[edit]
- ^ Characteristics of a Modernist Film|Our Pastimes
- ^ Beyond the subtitle: remapping European art cinema: Betz, Mark - Internet Archive (pg.34)
- ^ Beginning Postmodernism, Manchester University Press: 1999 by Tim Woods
- ^ Dragan Milovanovic. "Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodern Thought". American Society of Criminology.
- ^ "Reading the Postmodern Image: A Cognitive Mapping," Screen: 31, 4 (Winter 1990) by Tony Wilson
- ^ The Case for Douglas Sirk as the First Postmodern Filmmaker|Collider
- ^ Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema by Ted Perry - Google Books
- ^ Modernism and Film - Cinema and Media Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
- ^ Project MUSE - Modernism and the Cinema: Metropolis and the Expressionist Aesthetic
- ^ Vertigo - Cinema and Media Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
- ^ "Modernism and Citizen Kane" by George R. Robinson - BMCC
- ^ The Big Sleep: Cinema and Modernism > National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
- ^ German Cinema, 1920-1930 — Modernism Lab
- ^ Satre, the Philosophy of Nothingness, and the Modern Melodrama - ANDRÁS BÁLINT KOVÁCS, Department of Film, ELTE University Budapest, Hungary
- ^ Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity —— Edward Dimendberg|Harvard University Press
- ^ Cinema and modernism - The British Library
- ^ The forgotten glamour and modernism of 1930s Italian cinema sets – Museum Crush
- ^ Modernism, Montage, and Social Commentary in Early City Films — Indiana University Cinema
- ^ Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics in the Age of the New Deal
- ^ How Chantal Akerman's modernist masterpiece changed cinema - BBC Culture
- ^ Screening Modernism —— Cineaste Magazine
- ^ Anthology Film Archives : Film Screenings
- ^ American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray (Suny Series) (Paperback)|University Press Books/Berkeley
- ^ Sirk/Fassbinder: Melodrama Mutations|White City Cinema
- ^ Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity on JSTOR
- ^ Battleship Potemkin makes us strong|World cinema|The Guardian
- ^ American Stranger - Google Books
- ^ Key avant-garde films from the roaring '20s :: September 2011 :: Cassone
- ^ The sad and the beautiful : Val Lewton and Vincette Minnelli at the Stanford Theatre|The Stanford Daily
- ^ Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema - Indiana University Press
- ^ THE WORK OF IDA LUPINO EARNS SOME OVERDUE PRAISE - Chicago Tribune
- ^ Table of Contents: Masterpieces of modernist cinema/ - Villanova University
- ^ Modernity: A Film by Alfred Hitchcock — Senses of Cinema
- ^ Established Modernism, 1962-1966 - Chicago Scholarship
- ^ “ ‘Saved from the Blessings of Civilization’: Stagecoach, the West, and American Vernacular Modernism” - Michael Valdez Moses, Duke University
- ^ Yasujiro Ozu: 10 essential films|BFI
- ^ The Rashomon Effect|The Current|The Criterion Collection
- ^ A Quickie Look at the Life & Career of Tex Avery - Bright Lights Film Journal
- ^ Tex Avery: Arch-Radicalizer of the Hollywood Cartoon - Bright Lights Journal
- ^ That's All, Folks - The Washington Post
- ^ The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation History - Vulture
- ^ The Cartoon Renegades - The New York Times
- ^ Alternative Visions: Animation|BAMPFA
- ^ Independent Spirits: Faith Hubley/John Hubley (2003) - Turner Classic Movies
- ^ Animators of Film and Television - Google Books (pg.15; chapter titled "John Hubley: The Modernist")
- ^ Amit Chaudhuri on Satyajit Ray's very Indian modernity: Not a 'beginning' as much as a 'fruition' - Scroll.in
- ^ Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray - Google Books (pg.195)
- ^ The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren — Senses of Cinema
- ^ The world of Len Lye|Govett-Brewster Art Gallery|Len Lye Centre
- ^ "Pretty Good for the 21st Century||Keep It Moving?
- ^ Film and Literary Modernism - Google Books
- ^ The Statues Still Stood: The Third Man and Third Spaces|Modernism / Modernity Print+
- ^ The Development of a Modernist Narrative in Selected Film of Joseph Losey - CORE
- ^ Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism on JSTOR
- ^ Ten Great Movies for Placemakers —— Project for Public Spaces
- ^ Black & White & Noir: American Pulp Modernism - Google Books (pgs.11-12)
- ^ In the Modernist Mirror: Jacques Tati and the Parisian Landscape on JSTOR
- ^ The Case for Douglas Sirk as the First Postmodern Filmmaker|Collider
- ^ The Films of John Cassavetes - Google Books
- ^ The Daring, Original, and Overlooked "Symbiopyschotaxiplasm: Take One"|The New Yorker
- ^ Blake Edwards's 'The Great Race' and 'The Party' - The New York Times
- ^ The Bitter Essence of Blake Edwards|Screening the Past
- ^ Filmmuseum - Program SD
- ^ Hard Clarity, Vaporous Ambiguity: The Fusion of Realism and Modernism in Antonioni's early 1960s Films - Senses of Cinema
- ^ Modernist Master: Michelangelo Antonioni | BAMPFA
- ^ Mr. Klein (1976)|The Criterion Collection
- ^ Mr. Klein | BAMPFA
- ^ Pierrot Le Fou’s Discourse on the Infection of Americanism in Europe and the Absurdity of Modern Society|Culled Culture
- ^ "All right: where am I?" "Looney Tunes" Animation as Modernist Performance on JSTOR
- ^ John Cassavetes: The First Dogma Director? - Bright Lights Film Journal