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Code, after Will H. Hays, who was the president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945).
THUR: The thirties establish the Genres and Tropes of Cinema, a decade of cementing cinematic language and editing, animation finds its footing
Watch: Nosferatu, The Sheik, It Happened One NIght DELIVERABLES: QUIZ #1
Week Three
The 1940s
MON: Lecture about how the 1940s ushered in a loosening of the new Production Code due to World War II. The climate of patriotism, working women, and the morality of war. Excerpts from The Outlaw with Jane Russell, I was a Male War Bride, Hitler Dead or Alive, The Best Years of Our Lives, Casablanca, Twelve O’Clock High, Mrs. Miniver. Millions Like Us.
TUE: How Hollywood helped the war effort, Capra and Why We Fight, Hollywood as a propaganda machine
WED: The big films of the 40s, and how they represented various aspects of life in a decade of war and post war experiences, The Consent Degree breaks up the studio system
THUR: Film Noir and as a genre how it portrayed women, the duality of conscience, and a brooding nation.
Watch: The Killers, one Episode of Why We Fight
DELIVERABLES: INDIVIDUAL TOPICS FOR TED TALKS MUST BE CHOSEN Week Four
The 1950s
MON: By the end of the fifties, the world had largely recovered from World War II and the Cold War developed from its modest beginning in the late 1940s to a hot competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States and the beginning of decolonization in Africa and Asia was taking place.