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| Film Industry context, Broad socio-historic context |
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| success leads to downfall |
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| the myth of romantic love |
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| someone out there for everyone |
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| the myth of regeneration through violence |
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| violence will solve problems |
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| hard work will lead to success |
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| Americans destined to expand out west |
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| live for yourself rather than for community |
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| living and deferring to the community rather than the self |
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| economic, social, technological, psychological |
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| 3 economic phases of film industry |
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| production, distribution, and exhibition |
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| 4 19th century technological developments |
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| Still photography (1831); Motion picture camera (maybridge marey); Tough flexible film stock (goodwin, eastman); Motion picture projecto |
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| individual viewing machine, arcade like urban venues; 30 secs in length, 1894-95 |
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1905(pittsburgh)-1913
Harry K. Davis |
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| Average # of shots in DWG shots over the years |
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1908-16.6
1909-24.8
1910-44.4
1911-71.4
1912-82
1913-87.8 |
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| Central fuctio of Myth @ levi strauss |
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| recurring story patterns and recurring representations which present and often resolve basic cultural dilemmas, conflicts, and tensions which otherwise seem unresolvable |
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| El dorado, City on a hill |
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| Geographic factors in forming american culture |
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| two ocean moat, rich and varied natural resources, spacious frontier area |
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| Ideological factors in forming american culture |
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Protestant of vocations
stress in value/importance of community/social cohesion
stress on value of individual freedom or liberty |
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| rely on combination of familiar and the unknown, conventionality and novelt, similarity and difference |
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| familiar characters acting out a fairly predictable story pattern within a familiar setting |
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| Oldest continuous film genre |
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| western (the great train robbery, 1903) |
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| Natty Bumpo sympathetic to civilization as it encroaches on the wilderness but still able to excel in skills needed for survival |
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| oklahoma land rush of 1890 |
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20-1300
30&40-1000
50-800
60-200
70&80-only a few
90&00-mini-renaissance |
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| Frontier most important factor in shaping american____ |
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| history and nat'l character |
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| Key american values shaped by frontier |
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freedom
self-reliance
practicality
ingenuity
Acceptance of the new
social mobility
physical mobility |
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| Powdermaker, hollywood as____ |
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| a dream factory, art and a business |
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| Motion picture parent corporation |
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| MPPC declared in violation of Sherman Antitrust Act |
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| Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros., Fox, RKO |
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| Columbia, United Artists, Universal |
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MGM and Paramount: stars and comedies
Warner Bros.: working men's studios, realism and action
20th cent. fox: crime films, mysteries
RKO: no consistency
Columbia: Screwball
Universal Pictures: horror, melodrama, sex comedy |
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Turbulence: 30-34
Order: 34-40 |
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| Sexual propriety, social decorum, institutions of law and order |
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| Most prevalent types of film in TGAOT |
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| Fallen women, gangster, anarchic/satirical comedy, social problem |
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| For individuals humor is a form____ |
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| liberation, release from stress |
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| To study american film comedy |
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| look at the dream work of american culture's collective unconcious |
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| upset the order and stability of society |
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| american film comedy gives |
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| order to societal/cultural forms of chaos |
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| @ catholic priest of 1933 |
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M: moral menace
O: obscenity
V: Vulgarity
I: Immoral
E: Exposure
S: sex |
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| First un-extracinematic star |
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| Piety, Purity, Domesticity, Submissiveness |
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| shirley temple, Mickey rooney, Judy Garland |
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| MPB Six thematic categories |
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why the us is fighting
The nature of our enemy
The nature of our allies
The production front
The home front
The nature of US and Allies fighting forces |
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| Contrasing values american parents encourage |
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achieve but be compassionate
Migratory but sedantary
Agressive/competative but cooperative
Individualistic but be a conforming and good team player
Ambitious but be caring |
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