SP 471 (M4 - Thursday Class) Week 11

8/3/2019 SP 471 (M4 - Thursday Class) Week 11

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The Sixties

Soviet Nuclear Explosion, 1949


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The Sixties

New sexualpermissiveness

Drug use Anti-establishment

tone

Dont trust anyoneover 30

John Lennon & Yoko Onos

Bed In for Peace, 1969


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The Sixties

Civil Rights Protests

Voting Rights Act,

1965


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The Sixties

Kennedyassassination, 1963

The Zapruder Film, frame 238

The Zapruder Film Stabilized
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Martin Luther Kingassassination, 1968


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Robert F. Kennedyassassination, 1968


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Vietnam War andthe shift in sensibility

War where the U.S.had no interests andfighting for a corruptregime

Anti-war Protestors


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Violent polarizationof society

While many protestmovements startedpeacefully,assassination &

violence at protestsradicalized them

Kent State, 1970


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Black Panthers

Abbie Hoffman &

the Yippies


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Columbia riots, 1968

City College

takeover by Black &Hispanic activistsresulted in openadmissions, 1969


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The Sixties

Rock and Roll wentfrom this

Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis Presley


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To this

The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix,

The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin


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Music helped driveprotests and politics

Eventually, so didcinema


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The Sixties

Woodstock, 1969

500,000 attended

The Who, JimiHendrix, RichieHavens, Sly and theFamily Stone,Santana, and the listgoes on


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The Sixties

The day the musicdied - Altamont,

1969


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The Sixties

But in the early 60s,

studios were still

behind the curve Continued to make

large-scale, wide-screen epics


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Some were verysuccessful

West Side Story & The Sound of Music


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Some were not

Dr. Dolittle & Cleopatra


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Cleopatra Nearly bankrupted 20th

Century Fox

Cost $44 million or $270million in todays dollars

Grossed $23 million atthe box office

Story behind the film ismuch more interestingthan the film itself

The end of the Swordand Sandal picture


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Elizabeth Taylorbecame the first

actor to be paid amillion dollars


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Meanwhile, in camethe French New

Wave

Jean-Luc Godard

Franois TruffautGodardsBande part, 1964&Breathless, 1960


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Truffauts Jules et Jim, 1962&The 400 Blows, 1959


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Italian Cinema afterNeo-realism

Spare plots &dialogue

Mood & feelings

Sometimes political

Viscontis The Damned, 1969


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Federico Fellini

Michelangelo

Antonioni Pier Paolo Pasolini

Luchino Visconti La Dolce Vita, 1959

Red Desert, 1964 Accattone, 1961

The Leopard, 1963


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Politics began toseep in to film

Cold War nuclearproliferation

Bay of Pigs, 1961

Sidney Lumets Fail Safe & StanleyKubricks Dr. Strangelove or: How IStopped Worrying and Love theBomb, 1964


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Easy Rider, 1969 Echoes of Altamont

Success surprised everyone

Made for $375,000 Biker film

About America - myths,hypocrisies and strengths

No stars

Contemporary music Opened the industry up to

young filmmakers


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Major filmmakers

Sidney Lumet

John Frankenheimer John Cassavetes

Mike Nichols

Sam Peckinpah

Stanley Kubrick


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The Sixties

Sidney Lumet

Began in television Twelve Angry Men

Fail Safe The Pawnbroker

Long Days Journey intoNight

In the 70s made Serpico,

Network & Dog DayAfternoon


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John Frankenheimer

Also from television

Way ahead of his time -

more appreciated now The Paranoia Trilogy

Seven Days in May

The ManchurianCandidate

Seconds

Birdman of Alcatraz


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John Cassavetes

Actor who acted tofinance films

Father of independentfilm

Cinma Vrit

Shadows Faces

Husbands


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Mike Nichols

New York stage

comedian/director Oscar for The

Graduate

Whos Afraid of

Virginia Woolf

The Graduate


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Sam Peckinpah

Revisionist Westerns

Bad guys against guyseven worse

Extreme violence inslow motion The Wild Bunch

Ride the High Country


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Stanley Kubrick

Photographer for

Look magazine Lolita

Dr. Strangelove

2001: A Space

Odyssey


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Bonnie & Clyde,1967

They're young...they're in love... andthey kill people


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More of a reflectionof the 60s than a

biopic Anti-heroes

Full of frailties

The real Bonnie & Clyde


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Anti-heroes

Accomplish goals in

an un-heroic way Film Noir characters

Spaghetti Westerns


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Criticized forglorifying crime and

violence withelements of comedy


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Arthur Penn

Also from television andNY stage

"Lee Strasberg ruinedan entire generation ofactors with that sensememory crap. The Miracle Worker

Bonnie & Clyde

Little Big Man

Alices Restaurant


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Warren Beatty

Already a star & thismade him bigger

Was producer on film

Produces and directs McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Heaven Can Wait

Shampoo

Reds

Dick Tracy


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Bonnie & Clydemade her a star

Three Days of theCondor

Network

Chinatown

Mommie Dearest


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Turning point ofcinematic sensibility

Living out the dreamof violent socialrebellion

Intense violence

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SP 471 (M4 - Thursday Class) Week 11