FILM 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Preston Sturges, Jonathan Swift, Joel Mccrea
Document Summary
Director of rules of the game renior went to hollywood a few years after he directed it. For some the system could be defined by the producers. There are generations of writers and directors in hollywood, who complained about the brutalizing system which put art at stake and gave producer the control that shouldn"t have been given to them. For bazin, by the 30s and the 40s, bazin perceives hollywood as a classical art, also an art which is defined by the system, the makers, and the audiences. It relates to the theatre of elizabethan england. The defining feature of the studio system is the creation of the production code. Hollywood was criticized for being too vulgar and negative for women and children. The rules of censorship were then created. Since 9-11 government gave specific instructions to hollywood filmmakers to portray. Audiences need to understand the conventions of genre. There is difference between art and entertainment.
