Doherty: Overview Flashcards
What was the NRA code and what did it mean?
The new deal legislation overseeing would Business practices. Brought on trepidations about what federal enforcement and censorship could meet for Hollywood productions
What to key alterations in the 1930 code changed the way Hollywood did business?
First, the producers appeal board was abolished.
Second, the studio relations committee was supplanted by the production code administration.
What sort of financial arrangement and forced the codes enforcement
The bank of America stated flatly that no film would receive financial backing without prior clearance from the PCA – producers appeal board.
What month in 1934 was Joseph Brien given more autonomy?
July 1934.
What actor helped to invigorate Hollywood under the code?
Shirley Temple – family-friendly fair.
Why did Hollywood postcode films seem to generate more revenue?
More family-friendly. Less postproduction editing, and multiple edits for different states.
Put another way, what three “” hard facts had created a consensus around the virtues of self-censorship.
saved on editing and distribution of prints
Wholesome family pictures taken off of the box office
Astonishing financial rebound of the motion picture picture industry by the close of 1934 – prosperity that Hollywood enjoyed until television ended the sweet ride. ( even in the midst of the depression)
When did Hollywood become to be more racially neutral?
After the second world war.
A) Reflecting military ensembles
B) against two racist empires… Slow
What year did Joseph Brien retire?
1954
What aspects of America help to bring about the fall of the production code?
Greater emphasis on personal freedom
Imported foreign films
Hitchcock’s psycho 1960
When do the code officially fall and what replaced it?
1968 – adopting a rating system. Not self censorship.
The alignment of what two things forced the motion picture industry to adopt the code oh Fishel he?
The alignment of church and state.
List a number of the locations common in precode film
Prisons, backstage, skyscrapers, chain gangs,
What are some of the recurring seems in precode film?
Hunger motif
Sin additives
American capitalism, American exceptionalism,
What percentage of the work place was unemployed during the depression?
25%
