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| The only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for the screen; it cotained nostalgic Midwest values |
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a "sexual hygiene film" warning of dangers of not discussing sexuality with young teenagers.
Teenage girl gets pregnant by a pilot who dies in a crash;
an independent film that was surprisingly successful. |
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| (1945) (dir) Hitchcock, psychiatrist Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman); amnesiac victim "Dr. Edwards" |
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| Who wrote: (films in her discussion) "Portray a country on the brink of profound change, but not quite certain yet about where it was headed" |
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(Milestone) 20th Century-Fox; OWI/BMP's attempt at creating "mythically" diverse military units to personify American Democracy.
Actors: Dana Andrews, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, Richard Conte
Story: an infantry platoon shored at Salerno in 1943 fight for southern Italy; mostly avoids patriotic posing and racism |
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(Curtiz); (prod. Wald); based on novel by James M. Cain;
Warner Bros.
Actors: Joan Crawford (Mildred); Ann Blyth (Veda); Jack Carson (Willy Fay); Zachary Scott (Monte Beragon); Eve Arden (Ida)
When Planned, it was designed per BMP to bolster the move or women to the workplace and public sphere.
Karlson notes that the film has contradictory discourses about woman's place in postwar fall 1945.
Film noir-esque.
patriarichal law at the end restored the mother and daughter to the nuclear family structure. |
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(Wilder); based on novel by Charles R. Jackson.
Wartime: personal/social problems like alcoholism shelved.
Postwar: reemergence of them gradually erosed the do's and don'ts of the Production Code. Alcholism seen as a disease.
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