FIPR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Romantic Realism, Pessimism, Howard Hawks
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The language of film was greatly impacted by the end of wwii in the 1940s. American authorities had to approve all films made in japan and germany and nationalism and traditional themes banned. Italian film tried to escape from mussolini"s fascism in 1930s. In india, partition divides the country in 1947 at the end of british rule. In china, mao comes to power creating a communist state and government built touring cinemas. Neorealism (italy and beyond) showing reality, real locations, real relationships, what people are living through, focus on working class, different struggles in life. When de-dramatizing film, there is a more natural and more realistic feeling of struggle to create the drama. Two kinds of indigenous cinema, supported by government film institutions: Eisenstein-influenced mythic works about life on the land. Los olvidados/ the young and the damned (1950) luis bunuel (a surrealist collaborator with salvador.
