FILM-197 Hollywood in the 1970'S
This course will focus on the film history of the 1970s as one of the most creative periods in Hollywood film history. The course will discuss the introduction of independent-minded young producers and directors who came of age in the 1960s who now started to assert their presence in mainstream filmmaking, including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, and Peter Bogdanovich, as well as seasoned directors such as Robert Altman who made movies that freely criticized American society during a decade in which Vietnam, Watergate, and other troubling political developments provided an abundance of source material.