some like it hot Flashcards
the apartment
1960
I’m out of here or it’ll be
godbye charlie
goodbye charlie
med shot outside car
hello im mr mozarella
business man and
saboteur (Schaffer)
the best director
is the one you dont see
wilder
hayes code
1934-1968
catholic legion of decency condemened it as “seriously offensive to Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency
Production code administration office ‘conemned’ rating
collapse of the studio system
paramount decree 1948 stopped vertical integration
george raft as spatz columbo
Scarface (hawks, 1932)
cinematic codes through which ‘real’ female
characters in film are routinely set up: lingering clos-ups, soft focus, POV shots
male gaze
‘men do the looking, women are there to be looked at’ Mulvey
the seven year itch
1955
the visual treatment
of both Sugar and the Josephine/ Daphne dye evokes some of the conventions by which classical narrative cinema constructs female characters as objects of the spectators look”
Kuhn
Daphne exclaims
“look at that! look how she moves! … i tell ya it;s a whole different sex!” (Med two shot as they look off-screen right) reminder of how looking functions int he construction of sexual difference “I feel naked, like everybody’s staring at me”
st valentine’s massacre
1929
close up to
hit like a solar plexus
if youre going to tell the
truth be funny or they’ll kill you
taking elements out of
widely acclaimed Hollywood films, wilder places them within and deliberately, yet subtly, parodies them
De Bono
Sunset boulevard
1950
effectively feminisned
throught eh conventions that classical narratives construct female characters
nobody’s
perfect
osgood has fallen in love irrespetive of gender
mgm
two different screenings
wall street crash
1929
prohibition of the
20s
give me 5 minutes
then hit them with everything youve got
weve been
out of work for 5 months
double indemnity
1944
shoot from
only the angels that tell the story
