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Soviet Nuclear Explosion, 1949

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New sexual permissiveness Drug use Anti-establishment tone Dont trust anyone over 30
John Lennon & Yoko Onos Bed In for Peace, 1969

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Civil Rights Protests Voting Rights Act, 1965

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Kennedy assassination, 1963

The Zapruder Film, frame 238 The Zapruder Film Stabilized

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Martin Luther King assassination, 1968

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Robert F. Kennedy assassination, 1968

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Vietnam War and the shift in sensibility War where the U.S. had no interests and fighting for a corrupt regime

Anti-war Protestors

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Violent polarization of society While many protest movements started peacefully, assassination & violence at protests radicalized them
Kent State, 1970

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Black Panthers Abbie Hoffman & the Yippies

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Columbia riots, 1968 City College takeover by Black & Hispanic activists resulted in open admissions, 1969

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Rock and Roll went from this

Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis Presley

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To this

The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin

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Music helped drive protests and politics Eventually, so did cinema

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Woodstock, 1969 500,000 attended The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Richie Havens, Sly and the Family Stone, Santana, and the list goes on

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The day the music died - Altamont, 1969

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But in the early 60s, studios were still behind the curve Continued to make large-scale, widescreen epics

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Some were very successful

West Side Story & The Sound of Music

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Some were not

Dr. Dolittle & Cleopatra

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Cleopatra
Nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox Cost $44 million or $270 million in todays dollars Grossed $23 million at the box office Story behind the film is much more interesting than the film itself The end of the Sword and Sandal picture

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Elizabeth Taylor became the first actor to be paid a million dollars

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Meanwhile, in came the French New Wave
Jean-Luc Godard Franois Truffaut

Godards Bande part, 1964 & Breathless, 1960

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Truffauts Jules et Jim, 1962 & The 400 Blows, 1959

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Italian Cinema after Neo-realism Spare plots & dialogue Mood & feelings Sometimes political

Viscontis The Damned, 1969

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Federico Fellini Michelangelo Antonioni Pier Paolo Pasolini Luchino Visconti
La Dolce Vita, 1959 Red Desert, 1964 Accattone, 1961 The Leopard, 1963

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Politics began to seep in to film Cold War nuclear proliferation Bay of Pigs, 1961
Sidney Lumets Fail Safe & Stanley Kubricks Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964

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Easy Rider, 1969
Echoes of Altamont Success surprised everyone Made for $375,000 Biker film About America - myths, hypocrisies and strengths No stars Contemporary music Opened the industry up to young filmmakers

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Major filmmakers
Sidney Lumet John Frankenheimer John Cassavetes Mike Nichols Sam Peckinpah Stanley Kubrick

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Sidney Lumet Began in television
Twelve Angry Men Fail Safe The Pawnbroker Long Days Journey into Night In the 70s made Serpico, Network & Dog Day Afternoon

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John Frankenheimer Also from television Way ahead of his time more appreciated now The Paranoia Trilogy
Seven Days in May The Manchurian Candidate Seconds Birdman of Alcatraz

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John Cassavetes Actor who acted to finance films Father of independent film Cinma Vrit
Shadows Faces Husbands

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Mike Nichols New York stage comedian/director Oscar for The Graduate
Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf The Graduate

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Sam Peckinpah Revisionist Westerns Bad guys against guys even worse Extreme violence in slow motion
The Wild Bunch Ride the High Country

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Stanley Kubrick Photographer for Look magazine
Lolita Dr. Strangelove 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Bonnie & Clyde, 1967 They're young... they're in love... and they kill people

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More of a reflection of the 60s than a biopic Anti-heroes Full of frailties

The real Bonnie & Clyde

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Anti-heroes
Accomplish goals in an un-heroic way Film Noir characters Spaghetti Westerns

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Criticized for glorifying crime and violence with elements of comedy

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Arthur Penn Also from television and NY stage "Lee Strasberg ruined an entire generation of actors with that sense memory crap.
The Miracle Worker Bonnie & Clyde Little Big Man Alices Restaurant

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Warren Beatty Already a star & this made him bigger Was producer on film Produces and directs
McCabe & Mrs. Miller Heaven Can Wait Shampoo Reds Dick Tracy

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Bonnie & Clyde made her a star
Three Days of the Condor Network Chinatown Mommie Dearest

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Turning point of cinematic sensibility Living out the dream of violent social rebellion Intense violence