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1. |
No Class Next Week
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1.1. |
Feb 20: President's Day
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1.2. |
Feb 1: Tuesday runs on a Monday schedule
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No class for us
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Go to your Monday classes
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2. |
Fall of the US Studio System
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2.1. |
Suburbanization
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2.2. |
Rise of Television
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2.3. |
Paramount Decision
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3. |
Decline of the Movies
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3.1. |
suburbanization atomizes film audience
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3.2. |
economic prosperity encourages consumer goods
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3.3. |
television aggressively promotes quality programming
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3.4. |
filmgoing was very inconvenient
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time
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cost
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4. |
Major Studios
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4.1. |
MGM
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4.2. |
Warner Brothers
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4.3. |
United Artists
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4.4. |
Paramount
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4.5. |
20th Century-Fox
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4.6. |
Columbia
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4.7. |
Disney
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4.8. |
Universal
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5. |
Studios in Crisis
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5.1. |
declining attendance
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5.2. |
fewer films
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5.3. |
large studio facilities
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6. |
Roadshow
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6.1. |
Sound of Music (1965)
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road showed at 266 screens
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ran for as long as 20 months
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6.2. |
successful
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West Side Story (1961)
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El Cid (1961)
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How the West Was Won (1962)
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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6.3. |
less successful
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Cleopatra (1963)
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Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
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Battle of Britain (1969)
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Doctor Dolittle (1967)
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Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
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Star! (1968)
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Paint Your Wagon (1969)
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6.4. |
youth audiences largely dismissed these films
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6.4.1. |
similar to French cinema (1958)
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7. |
Studio Acquisitions
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7.1. |
Universal = MCA (1962)
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7.2. |
Gulf + Western = Paramount (1966)
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7.3. |
Warner Brothers – Seven Arts = Kinney National
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7.4. |
United Artists = Transamerica Corporation
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7.5. |
MGM = Kirk Kerkorian (MGM Grand Hotel)
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8. |
US Production Code
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8.1. |
Developed in 1930
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8.2. |
Martin Quigley and Daniel Lord
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8.3. |
Catholic Legion of Decency
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8.4. |
Guidelines
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sex
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religion
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governmental authority
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8.5. |
Production Code Administration
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Jason Joy
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9. |
Weakening of Production Code
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9.1. |
American Films
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The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955)
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Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956)
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9.2. |
Foreign Films
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And God Created Woman
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10. |
MPAA
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10.1. |
Motion Picture Association of America
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Will Hays (1922–1945)
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Eric Johnson (1945–1963)
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10.2. |
Jack Valenti (1966–2004)
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solve the box-office decline
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modernize the Production Code
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11. |
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (1966)
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11.1. |
controversy over the word "screw"
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11.2. |
labelled for “eMature Audiences”
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11.3. |
rated "Approved"
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11.4. |
big box office success, small production
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11.5. |
prompted released of adult- oriented dramas
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12. |
Blow Up (1967)
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12.1. |
scene with female, full-frontal nudity
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could not be cut
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successful release in Europe
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12.2. |
released in US by Premier Films
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box office success
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spelled the end of the Production Code
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12.3. |
studios were largely distributors not producers anymore
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13. |
The Ratings System
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13.1. |
designed to segment audience by age groups
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13.2. |
initiated four age-based ratings
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13.3. |
actually fostered filmmaking creativity
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