FLM 158 — Hollywood's Second Golden Age: American Cinema, 1973–79
Quarter: Spring
Instructor(s): Mick LaSalle
Date(s): Apr 3—Jun 5
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: Thursdays
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Class Meeting Time: 6:30—9:00 pm (PT)
Tuition: $550
Refund Deadline: Apr 5
Unit(s): 2
Status: Registration opens Feb 24, 8:30 am (PT)
Quarter: Spring
Day: Thursdays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 6:30—9:00 pm (PT)
Date(s): Apr 3—Jun 5
Unit(s): 2
Tuition: $550
Refund Deadline: Apr 5
Instructor(s): Mick LaSalle
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Recording Available: No
Status: Registration opens Feb 24, 8:30 am (PT)
The decline of the movie business in the mid-1960s, followed by the end of movie censorship in 1968, resulted in an explosion of freedom and innovation in American cinema. The fragility of the box office caused studio moguls to put their faith in young innovators such as Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, and Francis Ford Coppola, and the lack of censorship allowed them and their colleagues to make the movies they wanted to make in the ways they wanted to make them.
This second golden age—rivaled only by Hollywood's first golden age of the 1930s—reached its high point during this seven-year period, which saw the emergence of stars such as Robert Redford, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, and Jane Fonda. Over a span of 10 weeks, this course will look at films from this era year by year, highlighting the ways in which movies (Dog Day Afternoon, Chinatown, Straight Time, and others) influenced culture—and culture influenced movies.
This second golden age—rivaled only by Hollywood's first golden age of the 1930s—reached its high point during this seven-year period, which saw the emergence of stars such as Robert Redford, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, and Jane Fonda. Over a span of 10 weeks, this course will look at films from this era year by year, highlighting the ways in which movies (Dog Day Afternoon, Chinatown, Straight Time, and others) influenced culture—and culture influenced movies.
MICK LASALLE
Film Critic, Hearst Newspapers
Mick LaSalle is the author of Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood, Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man, The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses, and Dream State: California in the Movies. He writes for the San Francisco Chronicle and other Hearst newspapers. Textbooks for this course:
There are no required textbooks; however, some fee-based online readings may be assigned.