21L.011 The Film Experience
21L.011 The Film Experience (Fall 2013, MIT OCW). Instructor: Prof. David Thorburn. This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period, classic Hollywood genres including musicals, thrillers and westerns, and European and Japanese art cinema. It explores the work of Griffith, Chaplin, Keaton, Capra, Hawks, Hitchcock, Altman, Renoir, DeSica, and Kurosawa. Through comparative reading of films from different eras and countries, students develop the skills to turn their in-depth analyses into interpretations and explore theoretical issues related to spectatorship. (from ocw.mit.edu)
| Lecture 15 - Film in the 1970s, Part I (2007) |
Dramatic changes in American film of the late 60s & early 70s linked with the period's turbulent social history, and with TV supplanting film as the medium for consensus narrative. Discuss Jack Nicholson / Five Easy Pieces; Altman's The Long Goodbye, MASH.
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