THA 136 Terms.txt

• Influenced by European New Wave.
• Made a film in 1964 staring the Beatles titled A Hard Day’s Night.
• His cinematic style was good.
• Consided the “father of the music video”

• Came out in 1967.
• Part of the Great Film Renaissance.
• This movie launches the trend.
• Warren Beatty produced it and also started as Clyde.
• He was intrigued by the French New Wave.
• Consists of elements from the Great Film Renaissance.
• 1) Criticism of military service and violence.
• 2) Materialism (suburbanism)
• 3) anti-Christianity
• 4) Emphasis on youth
• 5) Emphasis on sex, drugs, experimental sex. It had also used handheld cameras and the actors were method actors.

• Came out in 1971 and was directed by Don Siegel.
• Was part of the 1970s movie theme of “lone wolf film.”
• Where a frustrated male is frustrated with a situation in his life and acts on his own to correct it.
• This movie was successful in this theme.

• Directed by George Lucas in 1977.
• Lucas went from studio to studio to pitch it but was rejected each time until 20th Century Fox had accepted it.
• They had thought that the movie wouldn’t last, people predicted a cinematic disaster.
• There was not CGI (computer generated images).

• 1986 was the birth of the multiplex.
• The amount of movie theaters were decreasing but the amount of screens had increased in each building.
• Built near or in shopping malls.
• Designed to keep you comfortable so that you can stay there longer.
• 80% of their profits come from the snack bar.s

• Director of the Godfather.
• Part of the New Generation Directors.
• Does traditional genre film.
• Auteur filmmaker.

• One of his theme of his movies is dark satire.
• His first noteworthy film was Blue Velvet (1986) which was combination of film noir and a porn film.
• Incorporated film to avoid certain fees.

• Breakthrough film is The Terminator.
• Loves technology and loves to blend technology.
• Idea of the Terminator first started about a nightmare.
• Another movie he had done was the Titanic.
• The first $200 million dollar movie.

• Replaced the Production Code Administration.
• In 1968 Jack Valenti had created the MPPA film ratings system.
• Movies had ratings of G, M, R and X. Each rating shows how safe the film was, for children or not.
• Letter rating had an effect on the box office because people had aimed for a rating of R.
• Not a lot of people really cared for the rating of G.

• Directed M.A.S.H. which was about the Korean War.
• 14 directors had turned the film down.
• Part of the great film renaissance
• An auteur director.
• He had made a new approach to sound and dialogue and had used all new stars.
• The themes in this film were unpatriotic, antimilitary and anti-christianity.

• Came out in 1973 and was under the theme of occult films.
• Dealt with Satan and evil.
• Rejected Renaissance films.
• The villains started becoming non-humans
• The supreme problem of the world was the supernatural.
• There were dramatic religious revival.

• Directed by Steven Spielberg in 1975.
• Some breakthroughs from the film was special effect achievements (the mechanical shark) and the marketing (saturations booking for the first time).
• It became the top grossing film of all time.

• Directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979.
• Considered the ultimate auteur picture.
• The perfect combination of massive studio expenditure and equally massive artistic risk.

• Videocassette recorder.
• With a VCR you are able to record audio and video onto a videocassette and play it back later on.
• In 1980 Disney and Universal and filed a lawsuit against Sony who just introduced the Betamax videocassette and video recorder.
• However, the court held that Sony could not be held liable for what consumers might do with a VCR because the VCR can be used in a way that doesn’t infringe copyrights.

• George Lucas’ state-of-the-art postproduction house.
• Between 1980 and 1999, ILM became the industry’s top effects house which supervised postproduction on over 150 films.

• A significant trend of African American depiction
• Designed for African American audiences.
• They were serious films.
• Elements of these films were
• 1) They take place in inner-city, poverish, crime cities
• 2) it dealt with crime and violence
• 3) Characters are criminals or policeman
• 4) rise of the Black Panther party (African Americans rising for self-defense)

• A film producer that had produced films like Die Hard (1998) and Lethal Weapon (1987).
• All the films he had produced has his auteur signature.
• A buff male star with a discernible expertise taking on some sort of cartel or conspiracy.

• High-profile celebrity auteur.
• Made politically incendiary films.
• He brings in race issues in all his subsequent films.

Made a career of making movies for and/or about kids in which he refuses to pander or condescend.