Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Classical Hollywood Cinema, Inside Man, Heist Film

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Barbara Bruce

Document Summary

1910s- highest paid director at universal studios: by 1920s onscreen, female characters were typically complex, not reduced to the virgin or the whore (roaring 20s) Breaking the rules of victorian forbearers: end of liberal roaring 20s started wingback into conservatism. Motion picture producers and distributors of america (mppda: production code of 1930 (aka hays code) No depictions of premarital sex, would be considered bad and need to be punished by the end of the film. Wrongdoing had to be punished by the end of the. Issues of sexuality, gender and race were not film were not allowed to be released talked about under the code get around the restrictions. Writers had to be suggestive, creative and witty to. Restore victorian ideas of womenhood: very few women in hollywood, very few were editors, became very limited. 1930-40s turned women into independent filmmaking: e. g. ida lupino.