Casablanca- Production Context
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- Created on: 16-03-21 16:36
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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
- The Studio System
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