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| purposeful opposition between sound and image |
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| sound that is herad but not seen; off-screen sound |
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| Nation Industrial Recovery Act (1933) |
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| created by FDR; allowed big businesses to grow with limited constraint to build economy; fostered studios' practices of block booking, blind bidding and run-zone-clearance |
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| selling a group of different film to theaters as a package, forcing theaters to take less desirable films in order to get the good ones; ensured theaters for multiple films at once |
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| requires theaters to bid on films without having seen them |
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| studios created a tiered system of exhibition within markets; film debuts at a studio-owned theater (most profitable), trickled down to independent/secodnd-run theaters (not as profitable) |
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| owning theaters ensured profits as it gave studios' theater priority access and guaranteed an outlet |
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| the specialization and divison of labor in industrial manufacturing |
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| the privileging of the human voice on the soundtrack |
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| Factors that helped Film through the Depression |
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1. sound
2. financial methods (advanaced capitalism)
3. government programs (National Industrial Recovery Act) |
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| National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 |
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| Allowed big businesses to grow with limited constraint to build economy; fostered studio's pratices of block booking, blind bidding & run-zone-clearance |
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1. imposed moral standard on all films, minimizing sex and profanity
2. all films monitered at script stage, then again after completion
3. Goal: avoid outside intervention |
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| Dual-plot structure & its resolution |
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A-plot: crisis or situation
B-plot: romance plot
Resolution: unification of the couple in tandem or resolution of crisis |
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| Relevance of The Palm Beach Story (1942) |
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- romantic comedy that plays with narrative and romantic relationships
- begins with the drive towards divorce, ends with recoupling
- ultimately reinforces convention of both
- abides both by the code and by classic hollywood narrative
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| It reinforces the narrative's plausibility and, if effective, becomes invisible. |
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1. cinema became a way of propagating politics & reinforcing nationa values during rise of facism
2. National cinema develops |
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1. films as representations of nation; style & themes as reflection of national cutlreu and sensibility
2. films as production of nation; government funding
3. typically ignored mainstream popular cinema in other countries |
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populist tragedy; represented the low morale of the 1930s and the popular front commitment to “the people” |
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