FST-3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Joan Of Arc, Ernst Lubitsch
Document Summary
Film europe: art & business without borders. Early 1920s: on their own, europe"s film industries were unable to compete with. Hollywood, but banding together gave them a better shot. The success of impressionist and expressionist films showed the value of an un- Murnau and other europeans had become hot commodities . 1927: lured by william fox, murnau brings his world- famous unchained camera style to hollywood. Sunrise (murnau, 1927) first film murnau made in. Borderless: by merging opposites, sunrise translates the feeling of border crossing into cinematic terms. Dreyer: the epitome of the international director of the late silent era . His films were international co-productions, and his blend of formal techniques can"t be reduced to any one national style. Passion of joan of arc (france/denmark; carl theodor dreyer, 1928) Unique, idiosyncratic, borrows stylistic traits from all over the places. Direct connections to other, specific styles always forming itself and merging/forming with others hard to see what"s french.
