VM100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jesse Owens, Byrsonima Crassifolia, Vertical Integration
31 Oct 2018
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Us version has jesse owens and german version doesn"t . Over a year in production, limited original footage. Bogart and casablanca from neutral to allied cause. Sacri ces love interest for service in the war. Hollywood personnel and material to government service: training films- audience of soldiers. Ex- kill or be killed : combat films. Ex: john ford"s the battle of midway (1943), midway"s sanitized version of wwii. John huston"s the battle of san pietro (1945) Military censored until 1945 because of vivid depiction of war/death. Ironic matter-of-fact narrator, classical music, b&w lm stock, images of individual death: orientation lms made for soldiers. Designed for recruits, but shown to general public. Prelude to war (1942)- rst in the series. Tv development nanced by am radio pro ts ( nance, broadcasting) Radio networks develop in twenties to broadcast live quality programming- tv adds pictures. Network structure decreases costs of show production- serving mass market, vertical integration.
