Week Four

What does Kramer argue was characteristic of the bulk of Hollywood-centred film criticism in the 1960s?

The criticism was against the directors who had started thier careers in the studio era and were stuck in styles and techniques and had still been getting a significant amount of attention. more than new directors who had more to offer.



What was Kael’s critique of art cinema and the New American Cinema, and why was Bonnie and Clyde “the most excitingly American American movie” at the time?

the film was a "cultural event" that not only the minority could identify with bu t the american apopulation. much more than films had been doing recently. in the past they had but it had gone extinct. The movie was then viewed as the strugle between young and old, hip and square, new genereation and older genertaion. Midus.


Krael, Sheed and Wolf against Crowther and Cook. Crowther and Cook were the old timers who didnt find the violence nice.

What is meant by “modernist” in the passage: “Critics engaged with a self-declared ‘New American Cinema’ exemplified by the work of writers and directors such as Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger, and John Cassavetes, certain aspects of which constituted, according to David Bordwell, a conscious ‘modernist’ break with Hollywood classicism”? [The answer is not in the passage; I’m asking you to look up “modernism” and “modernist” if you are not familiar with the term as you should be doing for any unfamiliar terms.]

When the artists in film caught up with the artists in other mediums.