FILM 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Real Change, Bicycle Thieves, Left Coast
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We"ve come through the end of silent cinema. We"ve come through a series of ways that define cinema as an art. We"ve seen efforts to define authorship, stars, directors, studios, aesthetics of cinema. We"ve seen the ideologies of the production code. We"ve discussed genre, as a category that filmmakers have stretched (like film-noir). We"ve seen the different types of social messages and meanings that films have tried to send across besides their original stories. We"ve seen social and political motivation behind films. We"ve seen the key inspirations for the hollywood left in the classic period. We"ve seen the black-list, where political motivations have to be disguised. We"ve seen b-horror films, or sophisticated a-films. We"ve seen the end of the classic hollywood period after the world war. We"ve seen the financial stability and unstability of hollywood post and pre world war. We"ve seen the rise of the classic hollywood cinema and the fall of it as well.
