TCF 112 1st Edition Lecture 8 Outline of Last Lecture I Biological Structure of Classical Dramatic Narrative a Act b Sequence i Dawn of the Dead c Scene d Beats i The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance II Orson Welles a Before Citizen Cane b Experiments with Narration c Experiments with Radio and Sound d Thematic Motif in Welles Work i Citizen Kane e Welles Poetics i 2 part Interpretive Exercise ii Sound Montage 3 Techniques f Magical Trickery g Welles Thematic Concerns III The Production Code A K A Hayes Code a Code Under Joseph Breen b Code Requirements c Pre Code Era Gangsters d Legacy of Gangster and Crime Film e Codes Social Ramifications f Classical Hollywood Style These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute i Three Categories of CHS ii CHS Ideological Implications g Genre Studies i Evolution of Genre h The Spaghetti Western Outline of Current Lecture I Post War Hollywood 1946 1967 a HW Major Dilemmas Post War II i Shrinking audiences ii Paramount decrees iii Rise of the television iv Changing populations 1 Population migration 2 HW s response v Cold War Anxieties 1 Edward R Murrow vs Senator Joseph McCarthy b HW s Solutions i Additional Solutions Current Lecture Post War Hollywood 1946 1967 HW Major Dilemmas Post War II Shrinking audiences 1946 100 million wk 1948 90 million wk 1949 70 million wk 1955 46 million wk Today 23 million wk Paramount decree A K A The Paramount Case Anti trust case The U S vs Paramount Pictures Inc 1938 Effected all studios not just Paramount The case was delayed until after the war As a result of the case studios had to break up their vertically integrated industry Vertical Integration for HW Production Distribution Exhibition Studios kept production and distribution and sold theaters Ramifications led to rise of the Independent Producer ended block cooking led to ind marketed films studios began owning theaters again in 1986 Rise of Television Emerged in late 40 s and early 50 s Early competitor with studios over audiences Became new social center for the nuclear family Within ten years the studios and TV were working together to get audiences Changing Populations Baby Boom 1946 1964 Many started families in post war period Removal of social and economic pressures war and resource conservation led to the boom in U S population o Population Migration Growing middle class Move from cities and rural to suburbs o HW s Response 1st drive in in 1948 Suburban multiplex created in 1963 Multiplex 2 or more screens Cold War Anxieties The bomb HUAC House Un American Activities Committee 1947 1951 1952 congressional group that looked into Communist influence in HW and elsewhere Anxieties about nuclear annihilation made its way into popular culture 1950 s Sci fi genre became platform for expressing the dreads and hopes of the people HW blacklist Hollywood Ten group of HW above the line talent barred from working in the industry Ex Dr Strangelove Peter Sellers as Dr Strangelove o Edward R Murrow vs Senator Joseph McCarthy Murrow know for WWII radio broadcasts Suspicious of TV s power to inform and function as a social good Murrow s TV shows Person to Person celebrity interviews See It Now hard news show See It Now s A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 led to McCarthy s censure and fall from grace HW s Solutions HW responds to crisis Differentiating its product discourse and marketing film art TV crass technological innovations Widescreen Technique Cinerama 3 screens 7 soundtracks Cinemascope anamorphic lens creates a 2 66 1 image New aspect ratio Additional Solutions New special effects Single frame animation 3 D cinema Amplified production values Biblical historical epics costume dramas Rise of new formula films Teenpics and beach movies Sci fi alien invasion and monster films