Courses: Session I

CAMS 211 - Hollywood in the 1970's

Maria San Filippo, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Cinema and Media Studies
The 1970s is known as the golden age of Hollywood, a unique instance when commercialism and creativity joined forces to produce artistically inspired, politically engaged works that revitalized the domestic film industry and national cinephilia. We will examine the aesthetic influences, cultural trends, economic factors, and industrial/technological determinants that combined to make possible this decade’s vital filmmaking. Furthermore, we will appraise 1970s Hollywood mythmaking, taking into account matters of gender, sexuality, and race as well as questions of film historicism and cultural memory. Films likely to be studied are All the President’s Men, An Unmarried Woman, The Conversation, Five Easy Pieces, Jaws, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, and The Working Girls.

Credit:1.0
Course Fee: $2,000

Lectures: Tuesday & Thursday 1:30 - 5:20 p.m.

Location: Collins Cinema

Maria San Filippo, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Cinema and Media Studies at Wellesley College, has a Ph.D. in Film-TV from UCLA. Her articles and reviews appear in Cineaste, English Language Notes, Film History, Journal of Bisexuality, Scope, Senses of Cinema, Quarterly Review of Film & Video, and the forthcoming anthologies American Movie Masculinity, Global Art Cinema, and Race and Independent Media. She is writing books on screen bisexuality and on 1970s screen history and memory.

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