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The 1960s and 1970s marked the rise of exploitation-style independent B movies; films which were mostly made without the support of Hollywood's major film studios.As censorship pressures lifted in the early 1960s, the low-budget end of the American motion picture industry increasingly incorporated the sort of sexual and violent elements long associated with so-called ‘exploitation’ films.
Hollywood on Trial: The Story of the 10 Who Were Indicted. New York: Boni & Gaer. ISBN 0-405-03921-2; Leab, Daniel J., with guide by Robert E. Lester (1991). Communist Activity in the Entertainment Industry: FBI Surveillance Files on Hollywood, 1942–1958. Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America (available online). ISBN 1-55655 ...
Appointment with Venus (1951) – British war drama film based on the evacuation of Alderney cattle from the Channel Island during World War II [34] The Basketball Fix (1951) – sport drama film based on the CCNY point shaving scandal [35] Casabianca (1951) – French war drama film telling the story of the French submarine Casabianca in World ...
Join A Very British Scandal creators & cast on a journey back to Great Britain in the ’50s & ’60s, the backdrop for the series, in the final episode of The Hollywood Reporter and Prime Video ...
The scandal surrounding Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking "criminal enterprise" has Hollywood on its toes ahead of his trial, set to begin on May 5, 2025.The revelation turned a once beloved and ...
Anti-film censorship cartoon published in The Film Mercury magazine, circa 1926. Public outcry over perceived immorality in Hollywood and the movies, as well as the growing number of city and state censorship boards, led the movie studios to fear that federal regulations were not far off; so they created, in 1922, the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (which became the ...
Following a summer of historic Hollywood strikes and discussions about our own new technology, evolving studio framework and the increasi Book Review: Film historian exploits tumult, gossip in ...
Ida Lupino, well known as an actress, established herself as Hollywood's sole female director of the era.In short, low-budget pictures made for the production company she ran with her husband Collier Young, The Filmakers, Lupino explored virtually taboo subjects such as rape in 1950s Outrage (released by RKO) and 1953's self-explanatory The Bigamist (an entirely independent project).