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Fine Arts: Literature
Read Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Fine Arts: Film
Watched Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman

Notes from SHOF: Chapter 7
World Cinema in the 1950s
1950 Japan's Akira Kurosawa "Rashomon effect" to describe differing eyewitness accounts POVs that cannot be reconciled.
1957 Sweden's Ingmar Bergman "The 7th Seal"
1954 Italy's Federico Fellini "La Strada"
1959 "La Dolce Vita" coins the term paparazzi
1950 Michelangelo Antonioni "Cronaca di un amore"
Luchino Visconti goes for the theatrical style. "White Nights" "Bellissima" "Senso"
1968 English Sir Carol Reed "Oliver" won Academy Award for best picture
England's EALING Studios produce Ealing Comedies.
1951 Charles Crichton's "The Lavender Hill Mob" with Alec Guinness,
1955 The Lady Killers
The St. Trinian Films and the Carry On Comedies
Hammer Films specialize in horror and science fiction
French Jacques Tati "Mon oncle" 1958
Robert Bresson creates his own form of cinema for himself influencing future generations.
John Rouch and Ethnographic Cinema.
Max Orphuls "Gigi"
Jean Renoir humanist
Roger Vadim "And God Created Women" (Bridgitte Bardot 1956) Liaisons dangereuses


Notes from SHOF: Chapter 8 - The 1960s Explosion
French New Wave - political and social issues furvor
. Francois Truffaut "400 blows" "Shoot the Piano Player" "Jules and Jim"
. Jean-Luc Godard "Breathless" "The Little Soldier"
. Alain Resnais "Hiroshima mon amour" "L'Annee derniere a Marienbad"
. Claude Chabrol "The French Hitchcock" "Bitter Reunion" "The Cousins"
Sweden:Ingmar Bergman
Italy: Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns "Once Upon a Time in the West"

Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove

"Bonnie and Clyde": Arthur Penn - slow mo, romantic deep focus shots, abrupt editorial transitions
Hitchcock's "Psycho"
Schlesingers "Midnight Cowboy"

Skip Chapters 9 and 10 - 1970's to the present / The New Hollywood
Most of this was familar to me