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    Posted: 10-Jun-2006 at 17:04
i am writing an essay about American movie. I need to discuss about the cinservative forces of USA during1960s and 70s, especially ithose forces in the Us film industry.Any essays or books about this.
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  Quote Illuminati Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Jun-2006 at 17:56
well, the film industry is notoriously liberal. Reagan became conservative  partly because he had been in the film industry and hated what the liberals there stood for, and the political tactics they used. But that was more during the 40's and 50's (he wasn't into film in the 60's and 70's)
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Here is just a though: cinema is for two reasons conservative:

1) As it is in 99% of the cases a story telling project it never gets wildly inventive as litterature or specially painting can.

2) Most of the filmakers are just quoting whoever was before them. Most of them are thinking, so and so did like thing to shoot a love scene, I'll do the same just slightly different. So cinema evolves very slowly.

It is irrelevent directly but I deeply think the object always matters. You do not trade per se you always trade something and you never trade excatly the same way wo different things. The same goes for medias, you're not conservative the same way if you are a school teacher, a journalist or a filmmaker.

My own opinion, one ought to disagree.

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  Quote Akolouthos Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Jun-2006 at 22:42
Originally posted by Maharbbal

Here is just a though: cinema is for two reasons conservative:

1) As it is in 99% of the cases a story telling project it never gets wildly inventive as litterature or specially painting can.

2) Most of the filmakers are just quoting whoever was before them. Most of them are thinking, so and so did like thing to shoot a love scene, I'll do the same just slightly different. So cinema evolves very slowly.

It is irrelevent directly but I deeply think the object always matters. You do not trade per se you always trade something and you never trade excatly the same way wo different things. The same goes for medias, you're not conservative the same way if you are a school teacher, a journalist or a filmmaker.

My own opinion, one ought to disagree.

M.
 
It really depends on in what sense you are using the term "conservative." If you are applying the traditional, caution-oriented definition, then yes, I agree on the grounds that the majority of film makers don't like to take huge risks and would rather just go with what they know sells.
 
If you are using the term with all of the contemporary social and political implications attached, I would have to disagree.
 
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  Quote edgewaters Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-Jun-2006 at 04:38
It would be erroneous to say that there were no conservative elements among the film industry, despite an overall impression of liberalism. Disney, for instance, has always been a massive force within the film industry and has always been a Republican sponsor. Even today, there are powerful conservatives involved in a large portion of the film industry; take Philip Anschutz, for instance, who controls a considerable portion of every stage of the industry, from production to advertising to distribution to exhibition.
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