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11 Cards in this Set
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War Documentaries
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-Hollywood began producing films that were more realistically depicted both the war and life on the home front
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The Battle of Midway and Why We Fight Series
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Midway- John Ford
Fight series- Capra -most famous WWII documentaries -edited from stock footage -very realistic and sincere |
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Combat Films
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Increasingly serious and realistic
-portrayed the horrors and anguish of war from the soldiers POV |
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Disney during the War
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military completely took over studio time
-produced military training films and educational/propaganda films Victory Through Air Power -Produced independently by Disney -animation with documentary lecture footage -caused Roosevelt to commit to long-range bombing as a military strategy |
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Hollywood business during WWII
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most profitable 4 year period
-technical assistance of military -war tax on ticket prices -therapeutic nature |
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Paramount decrees
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-May 1948 U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Hollywood industry was an illegal oligopoly
-studios ordered to sell their theaters -ended the studio system |
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Social Consciousness films
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-concerned with subjects such as racism, political corruption, and other inequities in social institutions
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Film Noir Influences
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war and postwar disillusionment
-postwar realism -german expatriates -Writers that wrote short stories (Hemingway) |
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Film Noir Stylistic conventions
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-majority of scenes are lit for night
-use of vertical lines -equal lighting emphasis -not a lot of action, but tension -wet streets -romantic narration during movie -not told from beginning to end chronologically |
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Film Noir Thematic conventions
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-villain is the woman
-passion for the past and fear of the future -sense of paranoia |
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Double Indemnity
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Directed by Billy Wilder
-prototype of film noir |
