FILM 110 Lecture Notes - Quiet Revolution, Baby Boomers, October Crisis
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Week 17- television comes of age feb 4. Characture dosent help us understand the culture. Pop culture of 60"s ( we attribute to the 60"s: woodstock 69, beatles break up 70, vietnam war ends 77. Governments of north america moved for the left on the domestic level. Johnson was far more socialist (democratic) then obama: but johnson was also leading a destructive war in asia. Baby boomers born 46-63: teenagers and young adult in the 60"s, 60"s marked their time of spite and their rebellion. Economics: economic prosperity, greater economic equality, high taxes, welfare state (not as many people in poverty, growing middle class, rise of the suburbs, expansion of consumer culture. Personal is political: cultural revolution in arts and political life, counter culture, rock music- woodstock, classic rock, rockfest exsspress, sexual revolution (the pill, women"s liberation, civil rights and black power.
