FILM 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Big Valley
26 May 2016
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Lec 07: the cold war + the post war hollywood western lm and tv westerns. Case study - chap 6 - the cold war. An inter-imperial rivalry between the united states and the soviet union. The two-superpowers competed with each other in economies, science, politics culture and in military a airs. 1947-1962 - phase i - 1949 nato - russia creates warsaw pact. 1962-1979 - period of detente (cuban missile crisis) : attempting to enter negotiations to reduce number of nuclear weapons both still militarily involved however. 1979-1991 - phase ii - allies of soviet union all revolt. Impact of wwii and the cold war on westerns. The underdeveloped third world is like the old west - needs to be conquered and tamed. The us and the ussr compete to bring the bene ts of their civilization to this new frontier. Western found an audience online - western serials recycled into tv programs.
