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New Hollywood Cinema

New Hollywood Cinema
Mondays, Jan 18ÂFeb 22, 7Â9pm
Instructor: Dennis West
Tuition: $80/WigglyWorld members, $100/general
Max Attendance: 20

This course will explore the thematic, esthetic, sociopolitical, historical, and economic dimensions of the New Hollywood movement that lasted from approximately 1967 to approximately the late 1970s. Key fiction films will be screened, and these works will be closely studied as aesthetic products. In addition, texts will be examined in terms of the ways in which they seemed to mirror American society of the time in terms of the eraÂs pressing social issues such as the Vietnam War, changing gender roles and sexual behaviors, the authoritarian strains in U. S. society, drug use, the economics of class, ethnic and racial questions, etc. Readings will be taken from books such as Peter BiskindÂs Easy Riders, Raging Bulls; Thomas Elsaesser, Noel King, and Alexander HorwathÂs The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s; Peter LevÂs American Films of the 70s; Michael Ryan and Douglas KellnerÂs Camera Politca; and David A. CookÂs Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979.