107-076 Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Formerly available as 111-247/347. Students who have completed 111-247 or 111-347 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Usually 12.5 points of first-year cinema studies, see Prerequisites, or first-year gender studies, see Prerequisites.

This subject explores developments in the Hollywood film industry from the 1960s to the present. Students should grasp some of the key issues of 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 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.