Archive for October 23, 2013

Forgoten Film History: The Underground Cinema Movement

Overview The Underground Cinema movement that occurred primarily during the 1950s and 1960s consisted predominantly of U.S motion pictures that challenged the folkways of Hollywood, religion, politics, and society by breaking taboos and corrupting reality. These films were a part of a major counterculture of film and independently financed since studios did not dare to […]

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Forgotten Film History: The Black Market Cinema

OVERVIEW The film movement that was termed, The Black Market Cinema, was a major culture movement in the world of cinema that first began in 1910 when the first black casted films were made to 1949, when Director Eddie Green produced his last film. The movement overall took place over the course of forty years, from 1910-1950. […]

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