FILM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: White Flight, Masculinity, Social Thriller
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Space of white flight (they go to the suburbs and get hypnotized) The sunken place is a metaphor (a place for black people to go and watch a horror movie-watch the movie and scream at the screen and nothing happens: post war usa. Masculinity threatened (by the women going to work) Renegotiation of domestic life (television genre was a way to mediate it) Move from city to suburb (was key-the impulse to move out of the city was the new industries and getting away from the inner city and move to the suburbs. More . (didn"t get the rest of them: guess who"s coming to dinner. It was made and completed 6 months before interracial marriage became legal. Were going to make movies to present to the audience the errors of having the fearful thoughts of interracial marriage and love.