COM-260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Miscegenation, Thompson Submachine Gun, William Randolph Hearst
7 Apr 2016
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68 vietnam, youth rebellion, free love movement, violence, sex, self-identity, new political order. Production code becomes useless, people ignore it in 1968. Anarchy marx bros. , showing you underserved social problems, violence, sex, gender bending, adventure films [king kong] racier than first thought [nudity] Consumption of alcohol in 1920"s was severe. At the same time america is getting more industrialized, more wealth. Prohibition occurs b/c rich people who owned factories and saw that workers are getting drunk and less efficient, and women"s suffrage movements. These groups were politicized to make the movement popular. Suffragists, paranoia that men are beating their wives after drinking, they join w/ religious evangelicals, use this issue to build a coalition. Movement toward cities out of rural life [sunshine] Pulitzer prize, joseph pulitzer was a tabloid yellow journalist who invented lies. Rise of socialism in us, economic structural reforms, unionizing, legal socialist parties were formed. Popular film types in the early sound era.
