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21 Cards in this Set
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what was the effect of war on american cinema
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- more somber film
- film economic downturn |
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hollywood after wwi: what caused the film econ downturn
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- paramount decrees
- less viewers - tv - huac |
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hollywood after wwi: what were the paramount decrees
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straddled wwi
- studios were said to have monopoly (bad for indies); studios gave up exhibition of vertical integration |
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hollywood after wwi: why were audiences shrinking
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tv
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what was huac
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house un-american activities committee, they tried to seek out communists in filmmakers
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what director was blacklisted by huac and booed when receiving academy award
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elia kazan
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hollywood after wwi: what were 2 important postwar genres
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1. social melodrama
2. film noir |
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what was social melodrama like italian neorealism
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- very similar, but didn't go so far
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eg of social meoldrama
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the best years of our lives
- how society has to readjust to the soldiers returning home |
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best years of our lives
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william wyler
gregg toland |
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how did social melodrama compromise on italian neorealism
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professional actors
real locations tarnished heroes happier endings |
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why couldnt hollywood have unhappy endings
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balance social criticism with profit motive
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another name for film noir
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black film
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what factors shaped film noir
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- wartime social changes (movies about men losing power fr women)
- improved filmmaking technology - studio economizing - stylistic influences |
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film noir
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- 1930s gangster films
- hard boiled fiction (gritty, naturalistic) - direct lineage - german expressionism |
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characteristics of film noir
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- darkness
- obsession - male anti-hero - contrasting females - pervading sense of doom |
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how is film noir dark
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- visual
- psychological - thematic (inevitable betrayal) |
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what is the film noir male anti-hero
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guy figuring out what to do at the crossroads of good + evil
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what are the 2 outcomes to film noir?
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- adheres to personal moral code and survives
- syccumbs to temptation and corruption |
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sunset boulevard d.
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billy wilder
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sunset boulevard: what outcome happened (film noir)
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he succumbs to temptation/corruption
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