COM-260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Existentialism, Motion Picture Production Code, Film Noir
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Much like the 50"s, increasing tensions in cold war. Global conflicts in 60"s: arab-israel wars: 6 days war 1967, china tests nuclear bomb 1964, many countries have the bomb now. Decolonization continues, fallout: algerian war ends 1962, libyan coup 1969, south american instability. Che guevara in bolivia [killed 1967: brazilian coup 1964. Space race 1961 ussr man in space. Elvis is now a remnant of the 50"s. New school is the beatles; anarchy, pop songs, uncontrollable and wacky, outspoken. In the 60"s, the role of the young is they don"t care. Old guard films, old hollywood, nothing radical guess who, in the heat of the. New filmmaking bonnie and clyde, the graduate. French new wave new, fresh forms [radical] Filmmakers decided they didn"t care about the code, violence, anarchy, drugs, sex at its" worst. Rex harrison, epic children"s musical, traditional film [musical] Disney bought the best picture nomination, they bribed everyone.