He analyzes every film to illustrate his larger point about how Hollywood has struggled with its desires to tell marketable stories and in the process represent history accurately. Toplin is more than aware of the complications that Hollywood brings forth along with the release of films portraying history.
Even though the stock market began to regain some of its losses, by the end of 1930, it just was not enough and American truly entered what is called the Great Depression. Before Black Tuesday, the economy had been stagnant for months prior, and the effects of the market crash were compounded due to the use of margin, and the general lack of market regulations at that time. The use of margin means people had borrowed funds (Doc K). This led to a spiral of falling prices. With significantly reduced wealth, spending decline, banks failed and on top of this drought conditions contributed to a lack of good crops.
The number of people unemployed rose by five million from the start of the great depression1929 to when Hitler became chancellor in 1933. Some people were still in works but they were paid low wages and worked short time works. The number of unemployment left many people hungry as they had no work so they couldn’t get the money to buy food. Also many people became homeless. The great depression gave huge boost to the extremist parties as the German people started to blame the government to the depression and therefore lost confidence in them.
This essay will explore the term ‘a culture of viewing’ with reference to changes such as the technological innovations of film processing and the development of a film culture that would create an entirely different form of entertainment which was to result in the transformation of the film industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Photography is a technological invention that has become the most universal means of communication and artistic expression that the world has known. The invention of photography greatly influenced how people perceived and experienced the world and was an invention which allowed cinema to develop. Bordwell and Thompson (2008 p. 445) note that ‘the invention of photography in 1826 launched a series of discoveries that made cinema possible’. Inventions and discoveries such as the Phenakistoscope and the Zoetrope allowed moving picture to be generated from static images.
Bands traveled around the country to perform which could incur up to $30 in gas per trip. Gasoline prices fluctuated from $.25-.30 (Historical Gas Prices, 1919-2004) at the end of the Jazz Age causing travel to be quite expensive for large groups. It was cheaper for smaller bands to travel; so many large bands broke apart. Demand for live music began to decrease at the start of the Great Depression because families were too poor to spend their funds recreationally. “25 percent of all workers and 37 percent of all nonfarm workers were completely out of work,” (Smiley).
In order to illustrate the structures involved I will be writing about the subjects of genre and genre transformation, the representation of gender, postmodernism and the relationship between style, form and content. Classical Hollywood Classical Hollywood is a tradition of methods and structures that were prominent American cinema between 1916 and 1960.Its heritage stems from earlier American cinema Melodrama and to theatrical melodrama before that. Its tradition lives on in mainstream Hollywood to this day. But what is it? Classic na... ... middle of paper ... ... Book,1st ed (BFI, 1990) 4.
No longer can a government wage a war with disregard of the consequences, through the avenue of film the public are able to make their own voices and perceptions heard and broadcast to the masses. As with war itself, time and technology has played its part in the advancement of this medium as public perception has changed over the years, and the imagery has needed to become more graphic and poignant to portray the same messages as before. I have chosen to use two movies of completely different design and from two separate conflicts and times that I believe showed, in their own
Joseph Canlas Bergen Catholic AP U.S. History September 26, 2011 The Impact of the Great Depression on Social Groups A decade following the end of World War II, tragedy befell the United States. With the transition from war to a time of peace, factories previously dedicated to the production of warfare supplies (i.e. ammo, artillery, clothing, vehicles) were forced to either shutdown or change their produce. Large amounts of money were used in the demobilization of soldiers and these incoming soldiers were in great need for re-entry into the work force. The size of the army was decreasing at the expense of the labor market, which struck its peak at 1.6 million people.
Just four years ago, family savings and income accounted for thirty-six percent of college costs. Unfortunately, because home equity loans are harder to get, many families have to turn to education loans with higher interest rates. While median family income is markedly down, tuition and fees have spiked over the past few years. In fact, public institutions of higher learning have become twice as expensive to attend over the past decade. Meanwhile, to make matters worse, State funding is down twenty-two percent over the same time period.
Films based on a revolutionary theme may be the transformation of a small society, as is in the movie ‘Freedom Writers’, it may be the development of a large community as is in ‘Lagaan’ or perhaps an uprising of an ant world trying to escape their century long dictatorship from the Grass Hoppers, as is in ‘Ants’. Hence, it is needless to say that the world of Cinema has broadened the concept of revolution from being solely political to being one characteristic of bringing about any fundamental change. Revolutionary films usually consist of one leading role, the one whom the audience is most intrigued by. The viewers are made to experience every detail of the person’s life, in order to develop the emotional connection between this character, his views, and the audience. The second most important role is played by a single character or many people who represent the audience that is being addressed with the revolutionary message.