Casablanca- Production Context

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  • Casablanca Production Context
    • The Studio System
      • actors controlled by studios, set salary and made to act in whatever films
      • limited creativity, contracts directors all controlled
      • lots of films released, 5 main studios, efficient way of making films
      • MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros, 20th Cent Fox, RKO
      • Warner Bros- working class catered, gangster films
    • Warner Brothers
      • made films in 40s such as Maltese Falcon and Rebel Without A Cause
      • used same actors but borrowed Ingrid Bergman
      • action and war films, controversial and working class centered
    • Star System
      • system taking advantage of young actors by reinventing their identities to Hollywood agenda
      • contained Morality clauses and used hush money when scandals occured
      • emphasised image over acting, women had to be glamorous and men gentlemen
    • Hays Code
      • guidelines for censorship of content, especially sex and violence
      • regulatory body, Catholic League of Decency led to this

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