AMST 35a Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychological Trauma
24 Jan 2017
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Americans were moving into the great depression . People who experienced the great depression: hopeless, desperate. Traumatize all people (americans) at that time. If you earn a little money, you gave it to your mother. Films in this period have the background of the great depression . The czar of hollywood appointed first head of the motion picture producers and. The production code (produced by the catholics) Regulate the movies to make sure they are pure and entertaining. The general public was pressurizing the girls. Girls wanted to get a job so desperately because of the great. People in chaos attacking the public facilities. There was a code, but it was not enforced. After july 1934, the code was enforced. You can"t tell people about successful stories in the period of the great depression. So, stories are told in gangster films/ in books (e. g. settings changed: america .
