Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ida Lupino, Joseph Breen, Premarital Sex

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Barbara Bruce

Document Summary

Women were pivotal in the development of the film industry. 100 women directors making narrative, documentary and avante garde films: women were producing, directing and starring in their own films. Lois weber, first women to produce, direct, star and co author a major. Hollywood motion picture: made controversial but popular films, made films about religion, capital punishment. 1910: highest paid director at universal studios. Women thrived in the silent era: 1920s - on screen female characters were complex and not reduced to the virgin or whore stereotype (the roaring twenties) People broke the rules of the society this was the era of prohibition. Alcohol was illegal in the united states rise of gangs. Women smoked in public, respectable women would go to speak easies and women were busting out (boom period: people became more liberal. The great depression (1929: swing back into conservative views. Production code: hollywood thrived in the boom period.