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Sex & Melodrama

Episode aired Oct 8, 2011
1h 2m

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The Story of Film examines cinema in the period of 1953-1957. It looks at the growth of movie-making around the world and examines how sex and melodrama dominated the period. It looks at the... Read allThe Story of Film examines cinema in the period of 1953-1957. It looks at the growth of movie-making around the world and examines how sex and melodrama dominated the period. It looks at the work of directors in Egypt (Youssef Chahine), India (Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray), China (Xie... Read allThe Story of Film examines cinema in the period of 1953-1957. It looks at the growth of movie-making around the world and examines how sex and melodrama dominated the period. It looks at the work of directors in Egypt (Youssef Chahine), India (Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray), China (Xie Jin), Japan (Akira Kurosawa), Brazil (Nelson Pereira dos Santos), and Mexico (Fernando de... Read all

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Mark Cousins

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Youssef Chahine

Self - Interviewee

Soumendu Roy

Self - Interviewee

Sharmila Tagore

Self - Interviewee

Jin Xie

Self - Interviewee

Kyôko Kagawa

Self - Interviewee

Donald Richie

Self - Interviewee

François Truffaut

Self
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Judy Balaban

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David Lean

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(archive footage)

Juan Diego Botto

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Jin Xie - Interviewee: The reason Chinese audiences don't enjoy films influenced by the West is hat every country has its own culture and artistic style. Movies bottle the essence of culture.

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Features Raja Harishchandra (1913)

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Sex and Power

This is a study of the early 1050's in cinema. It starts with James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause." He is seen as the rebellious representation of sexuality. It then goes into how European and Asian filmmakers presented the subject of sexual power. Several movies dealt in themes that the Code would never have allowed on our shores. There are numerous examples of some really abrasive portrayals of sexual deviance. In America, the closest we got would be things like Hitchcock did in "Vertigo" where voyeurism is really the hallmark. It's all he could get away with during this time. The person doing this documentary is criticized for his prejudices in favor of non-American films. When one looks at the sterility of so many films with censors taking over at every turn. Still, this is an excellent installment in this series.