FS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Francis Ford Coppola, Amnesia, Oligopoly
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Exam: 25 muliple choice, 4 short answer, and 1 essay. Alternaives to chc: early cinema, documentary ilm, art cinema, and indigenous cinema. Today: post-classical cinema (post-1980s: blockbuster and puzzle ilms. Begins in the 1940s, most notably seen in the 1960s. Never recovered from decline, now 12% of american families go to the movies once a week. Paramount decree of 1948 (efecive 1 jan 1950: the oligopoly of majors must divest theatres (mgm, Majors verical integraion: abolished block-booking and blind-bidding = no guaranteed income for studios. Previously, owners forced to purchase a season"s worth of ilms (8-10) blindly; didn"t know what movies they would get and if they would be popular. Rise of suburban development: young families seeking certain ameniies moved away from downtowns where urban theatres were located. Loss of foreign revenues (e. g. , quota system: ater ww2, foreign countries had less money. Financial deiniion: highest budgets for producion and markeing; atains commercial success, 1910s: emerges with rise of feature-length ilm.
