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107-076 Contemporary Hollywood Cinema | |
Note | Formerly available as 111-247/347. Students who have completed 111-247/347 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Ms Angela Ndalianis |
Prerequisites | Introduction to Cinema A: Classical Hollywood and Art Cinema |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour screening, a 1-hour lecture, a 1.5-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This course explores developments in the Hollywood film industry from the 1960s to the present. Students will be expected to grasp some of the key issues dominating during this period, including the focus on modernist strategies; revisionist approaches to early Hollywood genres; the emergence of left/right cycle films; allusionism and the new generation of Hollywood film school 'auteurs' (Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese), and the next generation that followed (Burton, Tarantino, the Coens, Lee). Students will also be looking critically at film theoretical responses to the Hollywood cinema of this era. |
Assessment | A class paper and an essay, totalling 4,000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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