FILM 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Antihero, Barbara Stanwyck, Homoeroticism
Document Summary
The style of hollywood"s films relates to audience"s understanding of the meaning of films. Fan magazines, fan clubs, and social media (now) all these are ways to connect to the audiences. The impact of the crisis of capitalism was noticed in hollywood. Filmmakers like john ford, capra, joined the army. There were crisis of the world war, and on the other hand hollywood got popular. Hollywood was supported by the state, and supported the state in the times of crisis. Stars, writers, directors all went through unionization in the 40s. Femme fatale is an important character of film-noir. Film noir black film emerged in the dark times of war. The first few well made film-noir became cult films for french critics. The 40s were a period of creativity and an expansion of genres. Film noir invented a new way to think about films. It was more of a style than a genre.
