CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD CINEMA

CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD CINEMA Not offered in 1996.

Students may not receive credit for both 111-247/347 Contemporary Hollywood Cinema and 111-247/347 Entertainment Cinema.

16.7 2nd and 3rd years Ms Angela Ndalianis. 111-105. No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials and film screenings a week. Students completing this subject should:

understand mainstream cinema in terms of the structure of the Hollywood film industry
analyse the emergence of auteurism in post-Hollywood cinema;
demonstrate an awareness of the historical and formal changes that developed in Hollywood cinema from the 1960s-1990s
critically evaluate the various theoretical approaches applied to popular cinema.

This subject will explore various developments in the post-1960s Hollywood period. Topics will include: the 1960s and the modernist tendencies; allusionism and the new generation of American auteurs (including Scorsese, Coppola, de Palma, Spielberg); the blockbuster form, spectacle and action trends; the second wave of Hollywood auteurs (Lee, the Coens, Burton, Cameron); and the semi-independent mainstream film. Through close analysis of the films to be studied, the subject aims at also looking critically at film theoretical responses to the social and ideological implications of Hollywood cinema. Written work which may comprise one class paper, essays or take-home examinations totalling not more than 5,000 words. Ray R. A. Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1985 Hillier J. The New Hollywood STudio Vista, London, 1992