HUMA 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: Federal Direct Student Loan Program, Advanced Capitalism, Classical Hollywood Cinema
7 May 2018
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Lecture 59
- Cheapest way to product increased number of films needed to fit this
two film model was to make more low-budget, standard films that ran
abt 60 mins (B-movies)
- All categories of companies made number of B-pictures, which often
acted as a training ground for new talent (behind and in front of
camera) and as way to find work for contract employees during
business downturn
- Locus of power shifted back to NY from LA and although production
still mainly located on West Coast, decision-making transferred back
to Wall Street investment houses that were needed to keep movie
companies afloat during the costly transition
- The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production
to 1965 book – identifies period between 1919 and 1935 as a time in
which American film industry went from being a capitalist industry to
one characterized as an advanced capitalist industry
- Difference between the two related to shift from direct ownership and
control (early capitalism) to a structure characterized by divorce
between ownership (in joint-stock companies) and operational control
(carried out by professional managers)
o Author’s (Staiger) argument that transition took long time
because of expensive transition to sound and subsequent
reorganization of film companies during Depression
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Document Summary
Cheapest way to product increased number of films needed to fit this two film model was to make more low-budget, standard films that ran abt 60 mins (b-movies) All categories of companies made number of b-pictures, which often acted as a training ground for new talent (behind and in front of camera) and as way to find work for contract employees during business downturn. Locus of power shifted back to ny from la and although production still mainly located on west coast, decision-making transferred back to wall street investment houses that were needed to keep movie companies afloat during the costly transition. These programs invite audiences to identify with agents as cunning and often alluring extensions of govt power, reinforcing dominant ideologies within the context of the cold war. On one hand, spies deemed necessary during wartime but also created paranoia among citizens because we don"t always know what they"re up to.
