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What two elements are attached to the decline of Hollywood? |
1. Studio System 2. Vertical Integration |
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What is the studio system? |
Early 1910s move to Hollywood - Varied landscapes - Better/longer light - Escape from Edison's patent control - First studios appeared in 1912 - Majority of film productions bloomed in 1920s |
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What is vertical integration? |
Studios that owned production, distribution and exhibition of films - Resulted in nearly total control of the industries - ended in 1948 |
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What did the decline of Hollywood lead rise to? |
Independents! - By 1960, studio system was in dramatic decline - Independent ex = Miramax (founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein (1979) as distributors) |
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What were the 3 main trends in Independent Productions in the '80s and '90s? |
1. "Arty" films (Hal Hartley) 2. Off-Hollywood Independents (Quentin Tarantino) 3. Retro-Hollywood Independents (Bryan Singer) |
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What is a Race film? |
Small African-American production firms established majority of these films. Yet most were produced by White-owned companies in White-owned theatres ("The Coloured Players: all Black-casts/White crews) - Sparked after the poor reaction from DW Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" |
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Who was Oscar Micheaux? |
Created race films - Began by writing novels and selling them door-to-door - Created the Micheaux Book & Film Company (1918) - Created 30 films over 10 years dealing with lynching, interracial marriage, etc; most were lost - Movies usually had an all-Black cast and allowed people of colour to be seated wherever they pleased |
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What is the Dialectic? |
Hegelian dialectic: Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis - Emphasis on conflict (Sergei Eisenstein) - Stemmed from Plato & Socrates |
