ENGL 117(F) American Cinema in the 70s: The Other American Renaissance+
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; Fosse's Cabaret; Polanski's Chinatown; Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Nashville; Coppola's The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now; and Scorsese's Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Evaluation will be based on in-class performance and four short papers. No prerequisites. Enrollment limited to 19.