CTCS 200g Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Consumerism, Body Painting, Yves Klein
7 Nov 2017
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Entering a new chapter in course: how art cinema and its framework dovetail during this decade with political movements. There is lm history before goddard, and there is lm history after goddard . Very in uential , many draw upon him as inspiration (ex. contemporary artists like won kar wai) Goddard a hero to a new generation of lmmakers in the 1960"s his rst lm: breathless . Vietnam by the 1960"s lm began to take a backseat to popular music bob dylan coming up. France agrees to withdraw from its former indochinese colonies accords split vietnam into two: north and south. Algerian war: algerians seek liberation from french colonialism. 1965: us sends combat troops to s. vietnam, initiates widespread air bombing of n. vietnam. Allies: england, france, germany have only spectator" role: President charles de gaulle, 1958 - in 50"s france was conservative but new leader amps up. France"s rst atomic tests 1960 nuclear missile program.
