HIST 3260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Barbra Streisand, Talent Agent
2 Nov 2016
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The world wasn"t a good place where you could simply sing and dance your problems away; maybe there wasn"t always a happy ending because the world is a complicated place: growing civil rights movement (1954 1970s) Films that specifically addressed race, sexism, hypocrisy: Guess who"s coming to dinner a white family"s daughter comes home to dinner and reveals that she was about to marry a black man, very challenging at the time! Blazing saddles anti-western, meant to be shocking, took away the honorability of the cowboy and showed the town"s people to be pathetic racist nobodies: end of studio monopolies, rise of the independents. United artists functioned as an entity that allowed movies to be financed and distributed without going through the studio system. Wwii era: james cagney (felt the studio system was aggravating because they always tried to typecast him) 1950s era: john wayne"s batjac for his own films. Many small companies formed for a single production (ex.
