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Ch12 Hollywood in Transition

Ch12 Hollywood in Transition

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Ch12 Hollywood in Transition

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Otto Preminger

  • protégé of Ernst Lubitsch

  • instrumental in vanquishing the blacklist by challenging the Code & hiring Dalton Trumbo (one of the "Hollywood Ten")

  • The Moon is Blue, Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus

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John Huston

  • moralist with a taste for irony & great literature who lived in the tension between cinematic style & value statements

  • the winners in his films were those who accept the limits of their humanity & navigate a moral crisis, or are flexible / resourceful enough to modify their projects

  • the losers (though still captivating characters) are obsessed, inflexible overreachers

  • Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon

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Elia Kazan

  • Cold War liberal in era of Hollywood blacklisting

  • had the problem of making social-problem films that would neither offend an audience or cost him his job

  • solved in public life by cooperating with HUAC; solved in film by turning social problems in "human" problems

  • sustained his message pictures w/dynamic performances from Method actors

  • A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden

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Moralist with a taste for irony. Lived in the tension between cinematic style & value statements. The winners in his films were those who accept the limits of their humanity & navigate a moral crisis. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon

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Otto Preminger

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John Huston

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Elia Kazan

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Billy Wilder

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Multiple Choice

This director had the problem of making social-problem films that would neither offend an audience or cost him his job. He solved in public life by cooperating with HUAC & naming names. A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden

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Otto Preminger

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John Huston

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Elia Kazan

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Douglas Sirk

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Multiple Choice

This protégé of Ernst Lubitsch was instrumental in vanquishing the blacklist by challenging the Code & hiring Dalton Trumbo (one of the "Hollywood Ten"). The Moon is Blue, Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus

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Otto Preminger

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John Huston

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Elia Kazan

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Nicolas Ray

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Billy Wilder

  • fled Europe when Hitler came to power (Jewish)

  • started as a screenwriter, would later reject flashy "distracting" cinematography of Hitchcock & Welles

  • wrote w/specific actors in mind to maximize on their limitations & directed 14 actors to Oscar nominations

  • opposed HUAC, & was 1 of only 2 directors in the guild to vote against an "oath of allegiance" proposed by anti-communists (the other was John Huston)

  • comedies & film noirs Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, The Apartment

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Douglas Sirk

  • melodramas of contradicting qualities

  • slick depictions of the most tawdry values of materialistic, middle-class life

  • brutally funny comments on this same tawdriness

  • "women's weepies" Imitation of Life, All That Heavens Allows

  • made female audiences fall in love with Thoreau-like man of nature roles in which he ironically cast Rock Hudson

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Nicolas Ray

  • loner & rebel on the fringes of Hollywood establishment (came to LA as Elia Kazan's assistant)

  • consistently identified with oddballs who saw themselves as different from everyone else

  • Rebel Without a Cause

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Rejected flashy "distracting" cinematography of Hitchcock & Welles, wrote scripts with specific actors in mind, & opposed HUAC. Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, The Apartment

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Otto Preminger

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Billy Wilder

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Douglas Sirk

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Nicolas Ray

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Multiple Choice

Loner & rebel on the fringes of Hollywood establishment that consistently identified with oddballs who saw themselves as different from everyone else. Rebel Without a Cause

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Elia Kazan

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Billy Wilder

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Douglas Sirk

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Nicolas Ray

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Multiple Choice

Melodramas of the most tawdry values of materialistic, middle-class life. These "women's weepies" were brutally funny comments on this same tawdriness. Imitation of Life, All That Heavens Allows

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John Huston

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Billy Wilder

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Douglas Sirk

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Nicolas Ray

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What are you rebelling against?

Staying awake in this class? That's pretty serious...

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