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UK FILM COUNCIL: Cultural Test
Total Section B 4
Total Section C 3
UK FILM COUNCIL: Cultural Test
Total Section D 8
TOTAL ALL SECTIONS 31
PASS MARK 16
UK FILM COUNCIL: Cultural Test
Total Section D 8
TOTAL ALL SECTIONS 31
PASS MARK 16
Key Figures of the British New Wave
1958-1963
Freedom meant:
(1) freedom from commercial constraint.
(2) freedom to give expression to a personal vision (as
opposed to striving for objectivity or journalistic
reportage).
Lyndsay Anderson (1957)
Art cinema:
• can accommodate violations of classical conceptions of
time and space (especially when they are psychologically
motivated).
• offers psychologically complex characters but not
characters who have clear cut desires and goals.
• foregrounds the author as a structure in the film’s system.
• foregrounds the narrational act by posing enigmas.
Spectators are prompted to ask: why is this story being told
this way?
• is characterised by ambiguity.
(in eds. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen, Film Theory and
Criticism: Introductory Readings)
BFI Production Board
Do you agree that this film fits equally well into both of
these traditions?
Question for Seminar Discussion (II):