Cinema of the 1950s in the United States and the World
Fred Zinnemann
(1907-1997)—realist with protagonists trapped in a social crisis that forces
them to confront their own sense of identity
Elia Kazan
(1909-2003)—story values rather than stars, more radical than Zinnemann—dedicated
Communist for part of life, changed mind in 1939 with Stalin. A reformer
- Social Realism (Elia Kazan’s East of Eden (1955) and On the Waterfront (1954), http://youtu.be/fxXHHBefM1o
- Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity (1953), and http://youtu.be/4iTCDWQXYlY
- Stanley Kramer’s The Defiant Ones (1958) with Sidney Poitier. http://youtu.be/-Syk7FV55iw
Adolescence/ts in
cinema—
- James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)http://youtu.be/cAlzg0S51GY
- and Marlon Brando in The Wild One (1953, Laslo Benedek http://youtu.be/yCENBce_dls
Revisionist Genres
(Westerns such as High Noon (1955
Fred Zinnemann) and John Ford's The Searchers, http://youtu.be/WI2AZb04HAc Horror such as Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)http://youtu.be/WFnSxeDfENk
Golden Age of MGM
Musical—Singin’ in the Rain (1952,
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen)http://youtu.be/jEKQwy13j_8
Japanese Directors
1950: Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon and Seven Samurai
(1954))—Emperor, adapted Western literaturehttp://youtu.be/sBn4cvHKPUc
1953: Kenji Mizocuchi (Ugetsu) William Wyler, Chaplin, Lubitsch, Caprahttp://youtu.be/87NcQ9O0rlc
1953: Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story)http://youtu.be/LhpLrFLckqo
Italian Neorealist Epics
1954: Frederico Fellini (La Strada)http://youtu.be/cWyZk8s2oyg
Indian Cannes Film Festival Winner
1955: Satyajit Ray (Pather Panchall)http://youtu.be/d-JWZDALouI
Swedish
1955: Ingmar Bergman (Smiles of a Summer Night)http://youtu.be/suMQZRAOivo
French
1958: Jacques Tati (Mon Oncle)—sequel to Mr. Hulot’s Holiday establishes him as
important French comic artisthttp://youtu.be/NHJcwMrqnJo
1959: Truffaut (400 Blows) Godard (Breathless)http://youtu.be/WCDEAu4R8hA
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