15. American Film in the 1970s, Part I (2007)
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- MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2013
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Instructor: David Thorburn
Dramatic changes in American film of the late 60s & early 70s linked with the period's turbulent social history, and with TV supplanting film as the medium for consensus narrative. Discuss Jack Nicholson/Five Easy Pieces; Altman's The Long Goodbye, MASH.
00:00 OCW Intro
00:25 Transformation and subversion
31:36 Social history (recap)
34:13 Television becomes a new consensus medium
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I was 29 when this was posted. I have never watched a single episode of MASH.
Pretty cool.
was there no mention of Monte Hellman's westerns of the 60's?
17:56 What did they laugh at? Any idea?
I’m wondering why the Professor doesn’t include Peter Bogdanovich as an important 1970s director. Is it because Bogdanovich’s 1970s movies might be characterized as faithful to classical movie norms rather than being transgressive?
Hard to separate changes in the business of film from the corresponding changes in US films. Film and TV are two different business models -- film sells entertainment to individuals. TV sells audiences to advertisers. IOW you are the customer when you watch a movie but you are the commodity when you watch TV.
After 1922, radio was killing film so the studios finally converted to sync sound (1927+). In the early 1950s, TV was killing film. In effect, the studio system of the 1930s morphed into the network TV, Big 3, of the the 1960s. "Sound of Music" made a ton of money in 1965 but by 1969 the studio (20th Century Fox) was broke again. They gambled on a new model -- movies that could not be shown on TV. The success of "M*A*S*H" the movie in 1970 accelerated a trend that began with films like "Bonnie & Clyde" (1967). Naughty movies. Provoking backlash or controversy was good for the box office. So you get films like "Midnight Cowboy" which qualified for a R but self-applied an X.
I had only seen the famous clip from "Five Easy Pieces" and I assumed that the character was a semi outlaw type / counter culture, in the vain of "Easy Rider" (with which it shares both Nicholson and the word 'easy'). Finally saw the whole film. That character is a trust funder classical pianist which very much changed my perception of that scene, eg the character is entitled. Angsty but entitled.
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My only complaint about these videos is that he blows the endings of good movies lol. Major spoilers!
Imagine not being able to make a point because it´d mean spoiling a movie.
There wouldn´t be a class then
If you look up the class you can find a list of the films and watch them beforehand
The teacher preferred a very theatrical expression. It would be easier to focus if there was a more natural expression.