Megans film history blog

Jaws Jaws was released in 1975 and was directed by Steven Spielberg. It focuses on Amity island. The island's main income comes from vacationers and beach goers, so after the chief of police wants to close the beaches after a shark attack, the mayor does not agree. A boy is killed by the shark and his mother puts a bounty on the shark so many hunters come to the island in search of the shark. The 1970s was an important time in film history for many reasons. There were many social and political things taking place that influenced the film industry. Mistrust of authority and government, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam war, the assassinations of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy, the conspiracy and government connection to their killings, the space program, the counter-culture led by the hippy movement, the drug culture, and Woodstock to name a few. It was a time when films were allowed to build reaction, to open and let audiences find t...

  Bonnie and Clyde The film Bonnie and Clyde is set during the Great Depression . Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker meet when Clyde tries to steal Bonnie's mother's car. Bonnie, who is bored by her job as a waitress, is intrigued by Clyde and decides to take up with him and become his partner in crime. They pull off some holdups, but their amateur efforts, while exciting, are not very lucrative. Bonnie and Clyde turn from small-time heists to bank robbing. The film itself pushed many boundaries of censorship rules and they were greatly influenced by foreign films.  Bonnie and Clyde was released during a time of Hays code in film. Hays code was a set of industry guidelines that films had to follow to keep them from being too violent or inappropriate. The code was a set of 36 rules that kept Hollywood under its thumb for decades. The Hays Code stated “corrupt” behavior and immorality (as the MPAA defined it, which by 1930s standards was a broad and oppressive spectrum) could not be...