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Lecture 15 (2007): Film in the 1970s, Part I

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Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class.

This lecture discusses dramatic changes in American film of the late 60s and early 70s: the end of the studio era, social transformation, and television as the new consensus medium.

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Transformations and subversion
- Directors
- Actors
- Style and endings
- Dissenting genres
Social history
- Vietnam war
- Assassinations
- JFK, LBJ, Nixon
- Watergate
Film and Television
- A new consensus medium
- Two versions of MASH

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