FIPR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Francis Ford Coppola, Alanis Obomsawin, Janis Joplin
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Malcolm x, jimmi hendrix, janis joplin, sharon tate were dead. Four hundred colleges on strike protesting a vietnam war. Watergate scandal of 1972-74 and nixon, showed that us republicans had been bugging the democrat"s party offices with help of the cia. Country more divided than since the house of un-american activity committee of the 1940s. Dissident movies (against conventional movies, continuation of new wave, antiheros) Assimilationist movies (old studio genres reworked in new ways) Revival (pure entertainment of 30s-40s) focus on alanis obomsawin. Dennis hopper "easy rider" 1970- against the norms of the society. Long lenses so actors didn"t know if they were on camera people would be walking around and the director would throw around some lines and since they had individual mics sometimes they would be recorded without knowing it. Allowed actors to move around as they liked and followed them. Francis ford coppola "the godfather" 1972 - incredible success.
