Humanities

• Today – Leonardo Da Vinci Video – Take notes on his why the Mona Lisa is so “important”

• Wednesday – Renaissance PowerPoint

• Thursday – Renaissance art samples

• Friday – Review art samples

• Monday – Test cards and binder checks

• Tuesday – Renaissance test

• Wednesday – Make-up tests

• Thursday & Friday – Writing to publish piece

American Cinema

• Turn in the review for Sleepy Hollow

The Film School Generation

Training Ground: The Rise of Film Schools

 Hollywood looked favorably upon film students as directors.

They were uncritical of the industry, eager to succeed in it, and appreciative of its history.

They could also be paid less than older, more experienced directors.

Film gradually became a feature of a contemporary liberal arts education.

In 1967, 200 schools and 1500 film courses were offered. Eleven years later, 1,000 schools and 10,000 film courses were offered.

Exploitation on a Grand Scale

Even though many of the New Film School Generation films were low-budget subjects, Hollywood gave them the big-budget treatment.

These films were often low-budget genre pictures in disguise.

Starting with Jaws , the major studios adopted the distribution patterns developed in the exploitation market.

That film was released in 464 theaters at the same time. Ads were on both the radio and the TV for the film, too.

The industry marketed these films according to methods that had proven effective in the exploitation field.

Today, the first two Harry Potter films (2001,2002) opened on more than 3600 screens, as did Spider-Man . Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines (2003), Scorpion King (2002), and Monsters Inc. (2001) played on more than 3400 screens.

A Return to Innocence

New Hollywood stories returned to an innocent and imaginative plot that didn’t need to be super realistic

Raiders of the Lost Ark returned to the innocent action serials of the 1930s and 1940s and restored moral clarity to the screen; confusing morality of Vietnam and returned to clear-cut villainy of Nazis.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind encouraged us to regress to the status of children-play with our food, indulge in whims and obsessions, and engage in a childlike state of wonder.

Star Wars was set in a universe far, far away and long, long ago.

Jaws

1975

Steven Spielberg

When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981

Spielburg

Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

The Godfather

1972

Francis Ford Coppola

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.