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The Seventies
Divided into twodistinct periods as
far as film historygoes
Saturday Night Fever, 1977
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The Vietnam-Watergate years
1970-1977
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And after Star Wars
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Vietnam continues
Invasion of Cambodia byNixon sparked more
numerous and more violentprotests on collegecampuses
Finally exited the mostunpopular war in history in
history in 1975
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Social gains eroded byeconomic recession
Foreign competition led to
first ever trade deficit OPEC oil embargo in 1973 -
lowered production & raisedprices - to $3.65 a barrel!(now its $78)
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The Civil Rightsmovement becamemore radicalized
Rise of African-American cinema
Positive images likeSounder
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Blaxploitation Employed a large
number of African
Americans in front of andbehind the camera
Attacked by NAACP fornegative images
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Paranoia anddisillusionment were
prominent ascinematic themes
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Watergate - Break-in atDemocratic NationalCommittee in the WatergateHotel -1972
Spiro Agnew, Vice president,resigns in 1973 because ofbribery charges
Resignation of RichardNixon in 1974
Gerald Ford becomes theonly president who wasnever elected
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Watergate Casualties andConvictions one presidential resignation
one vice-presidential resignation 40 government officials indicted
or jailed
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While the country was fallingapart, the American cinemaunderwent a renaissance
Film attendance began torise
Younger executives atstudios were more receptiveto new talent and ideas
Young directors to relate to
the youth market
Francis Ford Coppola,Steven Spielberg, GeorgeLucas, Roman Polanski &Martin Scorsese
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Even though production costsincreased 200% between 1968 and1976, studios were making money
Capital put into 6-8 large productionswith broad appeal
Offbeat/risky films were financedindependently and distributedthrough studios so they werentrisking too much money
Tax shelters allowed financiers towrite off failures easily
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Tight plots of Classicalcinema deemed oldfashioned & mass-
market Grand Hotel formula
Ensemble casts with lotsof characters (40 inNashville)
Loose episodic structures No clear resolution
Nashville, 1975
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Genre & Revisionism
Reverses or undercut
the classical idea
Cabaret, 1972
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Heroes were nolonger heroic
Chinatown, 1974
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Loosening of productioncode led to the most explicitsex ever put on screen
Porn was suddenly verypopular
Not a great period for lovestories - sex often fused withviolence
Only top ten female star of
the period was BarbraStreisand
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While movies became moremasculine, the Feministmovement was on the rise
Women, when they did get astarring, sympathetic part, wereoften helpless and dependant
While female stars became lessbankable, women lost power inHollywood
Were not welcomed intodirecting
A Woman Under
the Influence, 1974
Alice Doesnt Live
Here Anymore, 1974
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Joan Micklin Silvers HesterStreet, 1975
Elaine Mays The
Heartbreak Kid, 1972
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The rise of the BuddyFilm
Men only needed othermen
Midnight Cowboy&Butch Cassidy & TheSundance Kid, 1969
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Movies became muchmore technical andstylish
Scorsese, Lucas,Spielberg along withestablished directors likePeckinpah, Kubrick &Fosse
Jaws, 1975A Clockwork Orange, 1971
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Directors still comingfrom television Robert Altman
And from Europe John Schlesinger
Ridley Scott
John Boorman
Roman Polanski
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Acting
Peter Fonda
Warren Beatty Elaine May
Paul Newman
John Cassavetes
Mel Brooks Woody Allen
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and film school Francis Ford Coppola
George Lucas
Brian DePalma and Martin Scorsese
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The Landlord, 1970
Dir. By Hal Ashby With Beau Bridges, Lee
Grant, Diana Sands,Louis Gossett Jr., PearlBailey
Shot by GordonWillis(The Godfather
films, Annie Hall)
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Anti-establishmentvalues
Not optimistic
Deals with Race relations
Gentrification
Class
Youth vs Age
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Hal Ashby(1928-1988) Grew up Mormon
Began as an editor (Best
Editing Oscar in 1967 for Inthe Heat of the Night)
Edited for Norman Jewisonwho recommended him todirect The Landlord, his first
film His films are hard to classify
Use of music, biting humor &unusual camera placement
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After a string of offbeat hits,his career and personal lifewent into decline after theJaws/Star Warsyears noone wanted quirky,thoughtful films
Always difficult to work with,he made a string ofquestionable films afterBeing Therebefore he diedof cancer at 59
Cited by Judd Apatow &Wes Anderson as a majorinfluence
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The Seventies Beau Bridges (1941-)
Son of Lloyd, brother of Jeff
Numerous film & televisionfrom Norma Raeto My Nameis Earl
Lee Grant, (1927-) Acting since childhood, first
Oscar nomination in 1952
Blacklisted in the 1950s
Nominated for The Landlord,she won for another Ashbyfilm, Shampoo1976
Now a director (DirectorsGuild Award for NobodysChild& Oscar for Down & Out
in America)
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Louis Gossett Jr., (1936-) Career spans 50 years
Oscar for An Officer & A
Gentlemanalthough youmay know him from StargateSG-1
Diana Sands, (1934 -1973) Influential in breaking down
race barriers on stage
Most famous for the originalproduction & film of A Raisinin the Sun
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The Seventies Pearl Bailey, 1918-1990
Dancer & singer in Vaudevillealthough never formally trained
Numerous film & stage roles,
most famously, the all-AfricanAmerican version of HelloDolly
Graduated from GeorgetownUniversity at age 67
A Republican, she
campaigned for both the Nixonand Ford as well as attendingUN sessions as Fords specialambassador
A Met fan, she also sand thenational anthem in the 69World Series