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Film Noir |
Came from depression era and war time.Propaganda tool to express fear. Women in factories men at war “Black film” 1946 by critics as hard boiled detective novels. Shadows. Chiaroscuro. Titled camera Angeles. Voice over |
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Film noir ww2 |
1941-45 reflect different anxieties from postwar era. Different circumstances in Hollywood production system |
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Noir post-war |
Late 40s-50s psychological atmosphere. Paranoia about bomb, Cold War, HUAC, blacklist |
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Comics and pulp fiction |
Familiarity in Noir as mications were urban. Intermingling of noir and war was in all media. Comics news reels pulp fiction novels. |
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Femme Fetal |
Deviant spider woman. Frustrated and guilty. Man eater man eaten. Victim to own wiles. Independent, irreverent, strong but defined by needs of central male character. |
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Paramount Decision |
Supreme Court declares 8 companies guilty of monopolies. Majors ordered divest themselves of theatre chains. Ends block booking and vertical integration. |
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1950s audiences |
Move to Siberia. Drive in movies Studios loose audience to TV Rock and Roll draws young audience |
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Coming of TV |
1948 first broadcasting in US Hollywood underestimated TV and later was a threat. Studios put movies on TV 1/3 of broadcast material. TV stars became movies stars. Hollywood made TV |
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Consequence of TV |
Less discinction between A and B movies. No distinction between big and small studios. Stufios produce less films and raise budgets. Independent producers come up. David O. Selznick Walt Disney |
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Hollywood reaction |
Widescreen (CinemaScope, panabsion, vistavision) Technicolor Storytelling: Genre: western musical melodrama Complex and realists stories |
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Aspect ratio |
TV with similar aspect ratio 1.33:1 became threat to movie so they made widescreen CinemaScope and vistavision . Flat made May 1953 and became common projection standard |
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Technicolor and melodrama |
Worked perfectly together |
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New stardom |
Sexuality, rebellious. Method/ realist acting. Dramatic. Pop culture icons and not divas |
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Narrative shifts |
Social problems Open endings Complex narratives |
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Hedda Hopper gossip |
Struggling actress to famed gossip writer. Reached 32m readers by 50s. Provided platform for anticommunism |
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Hedda Hopper influence |
Mobilized readers to become “watchdogs” against threat. Readers Shared gossip for sense of community Used content and activism to accuse filmmakers of communism |
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Communist Symbolism: sci fibas metaphor for Cold War anxiety |
48-62 Hollywood released over 500 sci-fi movies. Popular and cheap. Monsters in films symbolizes communist foe. Sci-fi taken less seriously which meant writers and more freedom |
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Blacklist orgin |
Truman committee suspicious of Hollywood involvement with gov contract filmmaking( profits from military training films) Started as searching for monopolies and turned into which-hunt” against political expression |
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HUAC house on unamerican activities committee |
Hearing start 47. 19 ‘unfriendly witnesses testify’. 10 don’t answer and found guilty of contempt of Congress |
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Legal issues of 1st and 5th amendments |
Legal tactics changed for 10 refusing to talk. Invoked 5th shield against self incrimination Allowed witness to avoid naming names without being indicted for contempt of Congress. Taking 5th meant being added to blacklist |
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Naming names |
Reagan and Disney friendly witnesses |
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Elia Kazaan |
Testified in 52 naming 8 names. Received lifetime achievement award |
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Committee for 1st amendment |
Sept 47 supporting 10. Did not realize some Hollywood 10 were communists |
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End of balcklist |
Began to end when Hitchcock hires Norman Lloyd as producer in 57 |
