Rhetoric and Film Studies 366 - ST:Major Figures in Film."Mean Streets and Raging Bulls":The Silver Age of Cinema Sickels

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Whitman College

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In tracing film history from the demise of the studio system in the late 1960s to its rebirth in the early 1980s, students in this course will study the all too brief era known as the American cinema's "silver age," during which maverick film school directors made deeply personal and remarkably influential films. Texts will likely include works by Coppola, DePalma, Friedkin, Altman, Allen, Polanski, Bogdanovich, Kubrick, Malick, and Scorsese. Lectures, discussions, a big research paper, an oral presentation, and a required weekly film screening

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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