RTF 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Italian Neorealism, Exploitation Film, New Hollywood
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1920s-1950: hollywood studios, standardized hollywood movies, mainstream all-ages audience. New hollywood late 60s (67-ish) to late 70s. Who"s afraid of virgi(cid:374)ia woolf (cid:271)roke the produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374) code. Midnight cowboy 1969) (got x for pimping & homosexual characters) Mainstream porn (times square was full of porn theaters in the 70s) Hollywood gave young people $ to make movies to get young audiences. Bonnie & clyde used m and made . 1m, the graduate used m and made m. Called this because these kids grew up watching old movies on tv. First generation of film school grads (film school became a thing in 50s/60s) No more apprenticeship model where you start at the bottom and move up. Theory argues that director is the sole author of the film. Grew up as a sickly kid in new york watching old movies on tv. Went to nyu for film school (grew up in little italy)
