ENGL 140(F) American Cinema in the 70's: The Other American Renaissance (W)
A consideration of an extraordinarily fertile and still hugely influential period in American filmmaking, principally through the study of three filmmakers: Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. Films to be studied include Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch; Polanski's Chinatown; Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Nashville; Ashby's The Last Detail; Coppola's The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now; and Scorsese's Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.
Format: discussion/seminar. Evaluation will be based on in-class performance and four short papers.
No prerequisites. Enrollment limit: 19 (expected: 19). Preference given to first-year students.
Hour: J. SHEPARD