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Avant-Garde Film
Experimental cinema challenging conventions; peaked in 1920s France.
Auteur Theory
Directors as film’s "authors"; rooted in French film culture.
Film Impressionism
1920s French style using soft focus, superimposition, and rhythmic visuals.
Cinématographie
Emphasizes light, movement, and camera-subject interaction in Impressionist cinema.
Photogénie
A shot’s captivating quality, key in French film theory.
Poetic Realism
1930s French style focusing on ordinary people and lyrical imagery.
Montage
Cutting between shots to create meaning or show time passing.
Mise-en-Scène
Visual composition of a scene, including setting, props, and movement.
Surrealist Film
1920s French genre using dream-like imagery and symbolism.
Intertitles
Text in silent films for dialogue or narrative progression.
The French Golden Age (1930s)
Saw a "Resurgence of French film popularity" with "Early sound integration." René Clair's À Nous la Liberté (1930) is mentioned. "Poetic Realism" emerged, focusing on "Protagonists from the working class" and narratives "steeped in pessimism and shadowy settings."
