| Title: | Hollywood Cinema in the 70'S |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-01 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | FRT-101-01: When the Lunatics Took Over the Asylum: Hollywood Cinema in the 70s. Michael Abbott teaches Theater, Film, and Game Design at Wabash College. At the end of the studio era, the American film industry was in disarray, and the most groundbreaking films were being produced in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Desperate for a way to compete in the world market -- and having lost millions of ticket buyers to television -- the studio chiefs turned the keys to the kingdom over to the kids. These mostly twenty-something directors were hungry, relentless, and buzzing with ideas. A new generation of filmmakers emerged, reinvigorating the American cinema and producing an unprecedented number of innovative, provocative, and wildly entertaining films that are now seen as classics. This course will survey the history and impact of this unique era of films, including The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Shaft, M*A*S*H, Annie Hall, Star Wars, and The Deer Hunter, and filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Martha Coolidge, Steven Spielberg, Gordon Parks, Robert Altman, Terrence Malick, John Cassavetes, Hal Ashby, Woody Allen, Melvin Van Peebles, George Lucas, Peter Bogdanovich, and Mike Nichols. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 22, 2019 |
| End Date: | December 15, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/22/2019-12/05/2019 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Lilly Library, Room LGL
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| Faculty: | Abbott, Mike |
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