Unit 5&6

Unit 5:

                      Little shop of Horrors 

                                  research 

What is a b movie? 

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not an arthouse film (art house film). In its original usage, during the ‘Golden Age of Hollywood’, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicised bottom half of a double feature. 

The Culture in the 1950s 

During the 1950s America had post-world war II  expansion. Though men and women had been forced into new employment patterns during World War II, once the war was over, traditional roles were reaffirmed. Men expected to be the breadwinners; women, even when they worked, assumed their proper place was at home. 

Also during the 1950s the rise of suburbia had happened after World War II When all these soldiers returned home to their sweethearts and started families, there was a huge housing crisis because no new houses had been built in 20 years or so. The economy was on an upswing and the job market was booming, but there was nowhere to live. In the cities, the apartment situation was lacking, so people began pushing out to the edges of the cities, forming communities called suburbs.

African Americans had been fighting against racial discrimination for centuries; during the 1950s, however, the struggle against racism and segregation entered the mainstream of American life. For example, in 1954, in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court declared that “separate educational facilities” for black children were “inherently unequal.” This ruling was the first nail in Jim Crow’s coffin.

While all these politics are occurring The Cold War was also happening the tension between the USA and Soviet Union during the Cold War. After World War II, Western leaders began to worry that the USSR had what one American diplomat called “expansive tendencies”; moreover, they believed that the spread of communism anywhere threatened democracy and capitalism everywhere. As a result, communism needed to be “contained”–by diplomacy, by threats or by force. This idea shaped American foreign policy for decades.

                   The making of my Audrey II Model

As I started to collect objects to make my Audrey II model, I decided use used objects instead of buy new objects to make my Audrey. Before I had attempted to make my Audrey II plant but unfortunately I had thrown it away because I didn't think it was good enough, so now this is my second attempt at making my Audrey plant. 

What was used: 

• Cardboard for the 'Leaves'.
• an old plant pot.
• old green sock.
• woolly string.
• green knitted stem shown in the picture above.