21L011 The Film Experience
Professor David Thorburn

Lecture 7 - Hollywood in the 1930s

1. An Industry Emerges
   • The Studio Era
   • “The golden age of Hollywood”
   • Stars and genres
     
     
2. The Cultural Work of Movies
   • Entertainment
   • Genre and License
   • Invention vs. Convention
   • “The genius of the system”
   • Consensus Narrative
     
     
3. Strains of Comedy
   • Anarchic
   • Worldly
   • Screwball
     
     
4. Screwball heroine
   • Barbara Stanwyck in two clips:
           Ball of Fire, The Lady Eve