1960 - 1973 The Revolution of Youth Jump to:
1960 - 1973 The Revolution of Youth Jump to:
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 4 1960's Made-For-Tv MoviesBy 1960 television had “liberated” cinema by taking over its function as mass entertainment. Without a clear idea of what its post-television role should be or how to satisfy its increasingly disparate audience, Hollywood was in limbo for much of the next decade. The old studio moguls were either dead, in retirement, or battling to maintain a tenuous control over their companies. With them had gone confidence about production. Read More
4 The New Youth Audience
As the studio system disintegrated in a morass of agents, deals and “packaging”, the machinery which had once regulated Hollywood production crumbled. The Production Code had survived more or less intact though the 1950s, but became increasingly untenable against the industry's need to cater to a more permissive audience hostile to anything it could label “censorship”. Read More
4 Art Cinema and the New Wave
In France, a New Wave of filmmakers, many of them former critics, emerged in 1959 when François Truffaut's 400 Blows won the Best Direction prize at the Cannes Film Festival. As critics on the magazine Cahiers du Cinema, Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Jean-Luc Godard had attacked the dominant tradition in French film of respectful adaptations of "quality" novels, and asserted that the true creators of cinema were its directors. Read More
4 Television in the Sixties
It would be some time before anyone tried to make the same case for American television, which had changed little from the way Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had described it to its producers in 1961, as “a vast wasteland”.
Minow had just been appointed to his post by John F. Kennedy, and many in his audience might have expected gentler treatment from a president who had been elected, they believed, on the strenght of his appeal on television. Read More
4 Vietnam: Bringing the War Home
Vietnam, the first rock'n' roll war, was also the first television war, with combat footage on the nightly news. Johnson tried assiduously to manage television coverage of the war, pundits debated endlessly about whether television had “brought the war home” or had trivialized it as just another interruption in the stream of commercials, and whether the scenes of carnage and the reports of American atrocities had numbed its audience or had increased anti-war sentiment or street violence. Read More
4 American Television and the Wider World
In the early 1970s there was a renaissance of comedy on American television, much of it coming from Americanized versions of British programs. All in the Family (1970-77) took its formula and characters from the BBC's Till Death Do Us Part, first screened in 1964. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the first sitcom to feature an independent woman as its main character, also began in 1970. Read More
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