VM101 Lecture 11: Hist. 1-26-16
29 Jan 2016
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For the last century conceptualized and oppositional format. Different modes of production, systems of representation, and audience expectations. Results of: historical circumstances, evolution of different cinema economies, different attitudes about culture, Since wwi, european national cinemas struggled in the face of hollywood"s economic power. Produced for the international market, european lm industries have been more. Factory system/ oligopoly vs. state subsidies cottage industry. Happy ending versus ambiguous, tragic or non-quite-so happy ending. By the mid 1950"s, italy"s lm industry: (antonioni, federico fellini, bertolucci y pasolini, German cinema: aesthetically eclectic, politically radical and diverse national cinemas of the post war period. Many try to deal with germanys past and grapple with he national cultural identity: diversion of germany results int he parallel historical development of two german cultures. One a capitalist driven industrial juggernaut (west) The other featuring socialist state-control (east: west: oberhausen manifesto called for subsidized, non- commercial cinema.
