Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: New Hollywood, Chappaquiddick Incident, Warren Commission
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8 Nov 2016
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Sound Fidelity in Blow Out
Tuesday November 8th, 2016
●New Hollywood (1970s)
○Background:
■In the 1960s, Hollywood went bankrupt and had to make major changes
●People fresh out of the first generation who had film school were fresh out of college
○They entered the industry as knowledgeable scholars who knew film history,
theory, and were fans
○They eventually changed the way movies were made entirely
■Classical Hollywood-era had been torn down.
■Slow narratives including youth culture became more common
■Influenced by european styles
■No conclusions
■These filmmakers often diffused the potential to generate defence
●They saw exaggeration as embarrassing and gaudy
○Films:
■Easy Rider
(1969)
●“We blew it.”
●Nowhere to go, it had failed
●Conservative ideas were still here
●Extremely pessimistic of the American society including a deep mistrust of the state
●Extremely cheap film considering its success
■Blaxploitation:
●Large black casts
●Different genres
●Hollywood ruined this quickly
○Making it into a trend
○Capitalizing on black audience’s tastes
○Borderline offensive, playing on stereotypes
●Foxy Brown
●Black Dynamite
●Sweet Sweetback
●Shaft
■Porn:
●Porn films became popular and even celebrities would watch and talk about them
●Attempts to get Hollywood to fund these and make them but unsuccessful
○The Opening of Misty Beethoven
○Linda Lovelace in Deep Throat
○The Devil in Miss Jones
■Blockbusters:
●Introduction of the sequel, spinoff, franchise phase
●Essentially saved Hollywood
●Made things more fun and less political
●Hollywood realized they could remake the same movie over and over in a franchise
○Jaws
(1975)
○Star Wars
(1977)
○Heaven’s Gate
(1980)
■Made for 44mil