Post by Pherdy on Apr 12, 2007 17:47:51 GMT
This is my latest FCM project: an overview of all major film movements in cinema history. As you can see, the following list is very incomplete. Furthermore, it appeared impossible in some occasions to differentiate a film movement from a spur of a particular genre. Therefore, I have not only listed major, general movements (and directors associated with them), but also important genres – other than those that are of all times, like drama, comedy, thriller, crime etc – and either their most important directors or some example movies.
Feel free to make suggestions to further complete this overview.
(by the way, I’ve divided film history into five major era’s. However uncomfortable this can be in many cases, it is for functional purposes, and in fact I remember seeing this exact pentalogy of cinema’s history somewhere, although the names could be different – and I’m not quite sure where I saw it).
My major sources were Bordwell and Thompson’s film history bible, aptly titled “Film History”, and a number of general information websites, such as Wikipedia and Filmsite.org
SILENT ERA(1890’s-1920’s)[/b][/size]
Futurism (Italy):
German expressionism: Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Robert Wiene
Soviet Montage School: Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein,Dziga Vertov
Dadaism: Man Ray, René Clair
Surrealism: Salvador Dali, Luis Buñuel, Germaine Dulac
Cinéma Pur: Dudley Murphy, Henri Chomette, Laszló Moholy-Nagy
Genres:
Scenics, Topicals, one shot gags (1890's)
Historical spectacles (Italy): Fall of Troy, Last Days of Pompeii
Slapstick: Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy
Animation (1920's)
French impressionism: Abel Gance, Marcel L’Herbier, Jean Epstein, Jean Renoir
GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD (1930’s-1940’s)[/b][/size]
Film noir: Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Raoul Walsh, Billy Wilder
Neorealism (Italy, 1940’s): Vittorio De Sica, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini
Poetic realism (France): Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo, Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carné
Genres:
Feature length animation: Snow White, Pinocchio
Screwball comedy: It happened one night, Easy living, Bringing up baby
Universal horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy
Musical: Meet me in St. Louis, The Wizard of Oz
(B-)Western: Stagecoach
INTERNATIONAL ERA(1950’s-1960’s)[/b][/size]
Nouvelle Vague (France): Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Rivette
Cinéma Rive Gauche (France): Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Georges Franju, Alexandre Astruc, Henri Colpi, Alain Robbe-Grillet
Czech wave: Milos Forman, Vera Chytilová, Ivan Passer, Jan Nemec, Jaromil Jires, Ewald Schorm, Jirí Menzel, Vojtech Jasný
Japanese New Wave: Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kon Ichikawa, Kawashima Yuzo, Nagisa Oshima, Susumu Hani, Shohei Imamura, Masahiro Shinoda, Seijun Suzuki
Swedish wave: Ingmar Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman, Bo Widerberg
New Hungarian Cinema: Miklós Jancsó, István Szabó, Karoly Makk, Zoltán Fábrí
Cinema Giovane (Italy): Federico Fellini, Ermanno Olmi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Rosi, Marco Bellocchio, Gillo Pontecorvo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci
Young German Film: Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge, Jean-Marie Straub
Kitchen Sink Cinema (Great Britain): Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson
Cinema Nôvo (Brazil, 1960’s): Glauber Rocha, Ruy Guerra, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Carlos Diegues
Young Cinema (Soviet Union): Andrei Tarkovsky, Larissa Shepitko, Kira Muratova, Sergej Parajanov, Marlen Khutsiev, Alexander Askoldov, Andrei Konchalovsky
Polish Film School: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Wojciech Has, Jerzy Skolimowski, Roman Polanski
Novi Film (Yugoslavia): Aleksandar Petrovíc, Dusa Makavejev
Direct cinema: Maysles brothers, Donn Pennebakers, Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Frederick Wiseman
Independet film: John Cassavtes, Roger Corman
American avant-garde: Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, Gregory Markopoulos, Willard Maas, Marie Menken, Curtis Harrington, Sidney Peterson
avant-garde styles:
New American cinema (underground) (US): Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, John Waters, Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage
Structural film (US): Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, George Landow, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad, Joyce Wieland, Ernie Gehr, Kurt Kren, Peter Kubelka
Feminist avant-garde: Chantal Akerman, Sally Potter, Martha Rosler, Cecilia Condit, Su Friedrich, Barbara Hammer, Sadie Benning
Genres:
Spaghetti western (Italy): Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Giuseppe Petroni
Jidaigeki (Japan period pieces): Akura Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kihachi Okamoto
Creature feature/space B-movies: Ray Harryhausen, George Pal, Ed Wood!!!
Ostern (Soviet Union):
French heist film: Jean-Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, Henri Vernieul, Claude Sautet
Kaiju (Japanese monster films): Gojirra, Mothra, Gamera, King Ghidorah
Historical epics: Ben-Hur, Spartacus, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Cleopatra
Spy fiction: James Bond, Mission: Impossible (tv), The Avengers (tv)
NEW HOLLYWOOD(1970’s-1980’s)[/b][/size]
New Hollywood: Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Paul Schrader,
Foreign invasion of New Hollywood: Ridley Scott, Peter Weir, Wolfgang Petersen, Paul Verhoeven
Neue Kino (Germany): Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Wim WemdersIranian wave: Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Jafar Panahi
Magic realism (Holland, 1980’s): Alex van Warmerdam, Jos Stelling
Cinema of Transgression: Nick Zedd, Kembra Pfahler, Casandra Stark, Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch
New York's No Wave: Amos Poe, Vivienne Dick, John Lurie, James Nares
Blaxploitation:
Hong Kong New Wave: Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yim Ho, Allen Fong, Dennis Yu
Asian minimalism (70's-present): Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tsai Ming-Liang, Jia Zhang-Ke, Edward Yang
Genres:
Event pictures: Star Wars, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future
Cult: Scary, uncanny and unreal: John Carpenter, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, David Lynch
Teen movies (1980’s): John Hughes
Testosteron action films (1980’s): Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, Jean Claude van Damme
Kung Fu (Hong Kong, 1970’s):
Yakuza films (Japan): Noboru Ando, Akira Kobayashi, Joe Shishido, Bunta Sugawara, Ken Takakura
Pink Films (Japanese softcore): Shunya Ito, Teruo Ishii, Koyu Ohara
BLOCKBUSTER PERIOD(1990’s-2000’s)[/b][/size]
Dogme #95: Lars von Trier, Tomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Harmony Korine, Susanne Bier
American independent film: Jim Jarmusch
Anime: Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Oshii
Avriri Manifesto (Israel, 2000’s): Yoav Tal, Rom Barnea, Ido Gideon, Yuval Zuker
Remodernist film: Harris Smith, Jesse Richards, Wolf Howard
Genres:
Superhero revival: Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men
Monster/Disaster movie revival: Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Godzilla, Armageddon
Adventure revival: Pirates of the Caribbean, The Mummy, National Treasure
J-Horror (Japan): Hideo Nakata, Kaneto Shindo, Masaki Kobayashi, Takashi Miike, Takashi Shimizu, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
K-Horror (Korea): Ahn Byeong-ki, Kim Dong-bin, Park Ki-hyung, Kim Ji-woon, Kong Su-chang
Sequel/prequel craze: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Shrek, Ocean’s Eleven
title courtesy of kino ;D
Feel free to make suggestions to further complete this overview.
(by the way, I’ve divided film history into five major era’s. However uncomfortable this can be in many cases, it is for functional purposes, and in fact I remember seeing this exact pentalogy of cinema’s history somewhere, although the names could be different – and I’m not quite sure where I saw it).
My major sources were Bordwell and Thompson’s film history bible, aptly titled “Film History”, and a number of general information websites, such as Wikipedia and Filmsite.org
SILENT ERA(1890’s-1920’s)[/b][/size]
Futurism (Italy):
German expressionism: Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Robert Wiene
Soviet Montage School: Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein,Dziga Vertov
Dadaism: Man Ray, René Clair
Surrealism: Salvador Dali, Luis Buñuel, Germaine Dulac
Cinéma Pur: Dudley Murphy, Henri Chomette, Laszló Moholy-Nagy
Genres:
Scenics, Topicals, one shot gags (1890's)
Historical spectacles (Italy): Fall of Troy, Last Days of Pompeii
Slapstick: Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy
Animation (1920's)
French impressionism: Abel Gance, Marcel L’Herbier, Jean Epstein, Jean Renoir
GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD (1930’s-1940’s)[/b][/size]
Film noir: Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Raoul Walsh, Billy Wilder
Neorealism (Italy, 1940’s): Vittorio De Sica, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini
Poetic realism (France): Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo, Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carné
Genres:
Feature length animation: Snow White, Pinocchio
Screwball comedy: It happened one night, Easy living, Bringing up baby
Universal horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy
Musical: Meet me in St. Louis, The Wizard of Oz
(B-)Western: Stagecoach
INTERNATIONAL ERA(1950’s-1960’s)[/b][/size]
Nouvelle Vague (France): Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Rivette
Cinéma Rive Gauche (France): Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Georges Franju, Alexandre Astruc, Henri Colpi, Alain Robbe-Grillet
Czech wave: Milos Forman, Vera Chytilová, Ivan Passer, Jan Nemec, Jaromil Jires, Ewald Schorm, Jirí Menzel, Vojtech Jasný
Japanese New Wave: Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kon Ichikawa, Kawashima Yuzo, Nagisa Oshima, Susumu Hani, Shohei Imamura, Masahiro Shinoda, Seijun Suzuki
Swedish wave: Ingmar Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman, Bo Widerberg
New Hungarian Cinema: Miklós Jancsó, István Szabó, Karoly Makk, Zoltán Fábrí
Cinema Giovane (Italy): Federico Fellini, Ermanno Olmi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Rosi, Marco Bellocchio, Gillo Pontecorvo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci
Young German Film: Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge, Jean-Marie Straub
Kitchen Sink Cinema (Great Britain): Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson
Cinema Nôvo (Brazil, 1960’s): Glauber Rocha, Ruy Guerra, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Carlos Diegues
Young Cinema (Soviet Union): Andrei Tarkovsky, Larissa Shepitko, Kira Muratova, Sergej Parajanov, Marlen Khutsiev, Alexander Askoldov, Andrei Konchalovsky
Polish Film School: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Wojciech Has, Jerzy Skolimowski, Roman Polanski
Novi Film (Yugoslavia): Aleksandar Petrovíc, Dusa Makavejev
Direct cinema: Maysles brothers, Donn Pennebakers, Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Frederick Wiseman
Independet film: John Cassavtes, Roger Corman
American avant-garde: Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, Gregory Markopoulos, Willard Maas, Marie Menken, Curtis Harrington, Sidney Peterson
avant-garde styles:
New American cinema (underground) (US): Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, John Waters, Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage
Structural film (US): Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, George Landow, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad, Joyce Wieland, Ernie Gehr, Kurt Kren, Peter Kubelka
Feminist avant-garde: Chantal Akerman, Sally Potter, Martha Rosler, Cecilia Condit, Su Friedrich, Barbara Hammer, Sadie Benning
Genres:
Spaghetti western (Italy): Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Giuseppe Petroni
Jidaigeki (Japan period pieces): Akura Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kihachi Okamoto
Creature feature/space B-movies: Ray Harryhausen, George Pal, Ed Wood!!!
Ostern (Soviet Union):
French heist film: Jean-Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, Henri Vernieul, Claude Sautet
Kaiju (Japanese monster films): Gojirra, Mothra, Gamera, King Ghidorah
Historical epics: Ben-Hur, Spartacus, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Cleopatra
Spy fiction: James Bond, Mission: Impossible (tv), The Avengers (tv)
NEW HOLLYWOOD(1970’s-1980’s)[/b][/size]
New Hollywood: Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Paul Schrader,
Foreign invasion of New Hollywood: Ridley Scott, Peter Weir, Wolfgang Petersen, Paul Verhoeven
Neue Kino (Germany): Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Wim WemdersIranian wave: Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Jafar Panahi
Magic realism (Holland, 1980’s): Alex van Warmerdam, Jos Stelling
Cinema of Transgression: Nick Zedd, Kembra Pfahler, Casandra Stark, Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch
New York's No Wave: Amos Poe, Vivienne Dick, John Lurie, James Nares
Blaxploitation:
Hong Kong New Wave: Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yim Ho, Allen Fong, Dennis Yu
Asian minimalism (70's-present): Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tsai Ming-Liang, Jia Zhang-Ke, Edward Yang
Genres:
Event pictures: Star Wars, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future
Cult: Scary, uncanny and unreal: John Carpenter, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, David Lynch
Teen movies (1980’s): John Hughes
Testosteron action films (1980’s): Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, Jean Claude van Damme
Kung Fu (Hong Kong, 1970’s):
Yakuza films (Japan): Noboru Ando, Akira Kobayashi, Joe Shishido, Bunta Sugawara, Ken Takakura
Pink Films (Japanese softcore): Shunya Ito, Teruo Ishii, Koyu Ohara
BLOCKBUSTER PERIOD(1990’s-2000’s)[/b][/size]
Dogme #95: Lars von Trier, Tomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Harmony Korine, Susanne Bier
American independent film: Jim Jarmusch
Anime: Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Oshii
Avriri Manifesto (Israel, 2000’s): Yoav Tal, Rom Barnea, Ido Gideon, Yuval Zuker
Remodernist film: Harris Smith, Jesse Richards, Wolf Howard
Genres:
Superhero revival: Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men
Monster/Disaster movie revival: Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Godzilla, Armageddon
Adventure revival: Pirates of the Caribbean, The Mummy, National Treasure
J-Horror (Japan): Hideo Nakata, Kaneto Shindo, Masaki Kobayashi, Takashi Miike, Takashi Shimizu, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
K-Horror (Korea): Ahn Byeong-ki, Kim Dong-bin, Park Ki-hyung, Kim Ji-woon, Kong Su-chang
Sequel/prequel craze: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Shrek, Ocean’s Eleven
title courtesy of kino ;D