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SPIES - CONTEXT
VEIMAR GERMANY
Pre-Veimar Germany
The Versailles treaty, 1919
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During WW1, German films were mostly propaganda and thrived from funding by the government
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GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
Expressionist filmmakers worked to develop film narrative and film form and to communicate ever more effectively through purely visual means.
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While today a most, if not all, of these techniques are novel today, back then they were unconventional and exciting
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Themes
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Insanity, disorder, paranoia
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EARLY CINEMA
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Andre Bazin
A renowned film critic that wasn't a fan of expressionism, and argued that films should capture real life as objectively as possible
Included techniques like establishing shots, eye level camera, limited edits and realistic mise en scene and sets
The techniques mentioned are similar to the new objectivity movement and to an extent the classical Hollywood structure
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