ARTH 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Road Movie, Ingmar Bergman, Sf Studios
Document Summary
In "49, there were 1 million tvs in use. Labor union- i. a. t. s. e. (international alliance of theatrical stage employees) "34 through "68, production code- p. c. a. ends in 1968. Banned in several countries, the united states included, for being sacrilegious. In 1952, the film goes to the supreme court. It was ruled that the term sacrilegious is subjective. Ruled that film is a significant medium for the communication of ideas . This was the beginning of the end for the production code. The production code would only continue for 16 more years until 1968. The black list: directors, writers, etc. banned from writing/directing/producing because of possible communist ties. At that time, 324 people in hollywood had been blacklisted. Hollywood 10, unfriendly witnesses, and some people got 1-2 years in jail. From sweden, a film about an old man looking back at his past. Themes of this film: silence of god, relationships, communication, passage of time.
