EMST 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Studio System, Block Booking, Sync Sound
12 Sep 2016
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All lectures and readings up to this friday]go to elc and check out syllabus and see the sections and readings. Look at study tips (nothing too detailed, main conceptual/big picture ideas) No names and dates, look at how big things relate and affect each other. Emergence of youth as a key consumer market (white middle-class) For that reason the only people who could afford was movie studios of television networks. 1973: consumer cameras that got sound on film. Social activists came to embrace this technology because you could show it immediately. Video art (ex: nam june park) as an expressive medium. Guerilla television can do whatever they want with it, explore it: video freaks. Illustrates degree to which video technology is in the hands of everybody. Vertically integrated studio system is gone by late 40s. Paramount decree objected to control that movie industry had and needed to be broken up.
