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A woman dressed in gothic style in the 1980s. Goth is a subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. It was developed by fans of gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk music genre. Post-punk artists who presaged the gothic rock genre and helped develop and shape the subculture include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus ...
The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five feature-length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books, created by American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney. The Cremaster Cycle was made over a period of eight years (1994–2002) and culminated in a major museum exhibition organized by Nancy Spector ...
An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. [1] It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", [2] "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit", [3] and containing ...
Classical Hollywood cinema. Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s to 1920s during the later years of the silent film era. It then became characteristic of American cinema during the Golden Age of Hollywood, between roughly 1927 ...
British New Wave. The British New Wave is a style of films released in Great Britain between 1959 and 1963. [1][2] The label is a translation of Nouvelle Vague, the French term first applied to the films of François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard among others. [3]
—Tom Shone on Nolan being an auteur in Hollywood. Film critic Tom Shone described Nolan's oeuvre as "epistemological thrillers whose protagonists, gripped by the desire for definitive answers, must negotiate mazy environments in which the truth is always beyond their reach." In an essay titled "The rational wonders of Christopher Nolan", film critic Mike D'Angelo argues that the filmmaker is ...
Mumblecore. Mumblecore is a subgenre of independent film [1][2] characterized by naturalistic acting and (sometimes improvised) dialogue, low budgets, an emphasis on dialogue over plot, and a focus on the personal relationships of young adults. Filmmakers associated with the genre include Andrew Bujalski, Lynn Shelton, the Duplass brothers Mark ...
Cinéma vérité (UK: / ˌsɪnɪmə ˈvɛrɪteɪ /, US: /- ˌvɛrɪˈteɪ /, French: [sinema veʁite] lit. ' truth cinema' or 'truthful cinema') is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov 's theory about Kino-Pravda. It combines improvisation with use of the camera to unveil truth or ...