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TUES: Psychiatry was an emerging field of interest and romanticism of moral virtue and the mock innocence permeated movies of the fifties. How suburbia changed the landscape of film going.
WED: Television forces Hollywood to come up with gimmicks to get people in the seats. Musicals and epic films take advantage of the new giant screen format. Teen films take over, from horror, sci-fi and beach movies, cinema is pandering to a baby boom generation
THUR: Excerpts from films illustrating the 1950s themes about the disillusionment of war and the new morality will be shown along with a discussion about how they represent the most prevailing themes of the 50s. Harvey All About Eve, Rebel Without a Cause, Twelve Angry Men, Walk on East Beacon, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Roman Holiday.
Watch: Singing in the Rain, Harvey and Plan 9 from Outerspace to discuss. DELIVERABLES: QUIZ #2
Week Five
The 1960s
MON: The studio system changes and free agents take over. Big epics and historical dramas are in vogue, as well as the last vestiges of the glorious Hollywood musical
TUE: The moral chaos of the sixties is explored from the view of the challenging ethics of the time including: the civil rights movement, feminist themes, sexuality and sexual orientation. The anti-war movement and foreign filmmaking influences American directors.
WED: TED TALKS (6)
THUR: Screening of excerpts from films The Americanization of Emily, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Children’s Hour, A Raisin in the Sun, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, The Shame of Patty Smith, Dr. Strangelove, and Thin Red Line.
Watch: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls; Lawrence of Arabia DELIVERABLES: 6 TED TALK Presentations