Movements in Cinema History
Italian Neorealism
filmmakers could implement honest portrayals of life on the big screen. With an emphasis on holding a mirror up to society, the neorealist movement strived to portray real world struggles in the aftermath of WWII
Rome, Open City by Roberto Rosselini
German Expressionism
visual distortion and hyper-expressive performance to show inner turmoils, fears and desires of that era. German Expressionism reflects the inner conflicts ejecting cinematic realism ban on foreign movies
Fritz Lang (Metropolis) and F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu)
French New Wave
rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation existential themes, absurdity
Truffaut, Goddard
Soviet Montage
emphasis on editing Kuleshov effect