ENGL 277 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Utopia, Sound Film, Melodrama
7 Feb 2018
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Outline: quiz up to melodrama, dyer entertainment and utopia". Utopia in the music a note about realism : signing in the rain 1951. Authenticity, spontaneity and television: clip: milton berle"s texado star threaten 1949, scenes 2 kinds of movies. Background: too much emotion - dancing and reading, william. Excess in realism: gunning and early cinema. Cinema of attractions doesn"t disappear, it goes underground. Dyer entertainment and a utopia : social functions of music as a genre, similar to altman, entertainment provides imaginary solutions to real contradictions in peoples lives, temporary answers to social inadequacy, utopian strain in popular entertainment as wishful. Escape of the realistic world and an alternative: providing something that we deeply want that our day to day lives to not provide. Work and play can be the same thing. Open and spontaneous, honest communication and relationships. Lack of ability for collective action in a political sense.
