Annotation
Please note that this course runs every second Tuesday as a double session from 17:00 to 20:00 in room 2018 at Jinonice [Even weeks: February 26; March 12; March 26; April 9; April 23; May 7]. My other Spring course "Independent American Cinema" runs on the alternate Tuesdays (Odd Weeks: Feb 19, Mar 5, Mar 19, April 2, April 16, April 30] and requires separate registration.
This course offers students transferable insights into the ways topicality has shaped the production, content, and themes of American motion pictures of the last fifty years, focusing on six of Hollywood’s most high-profile topical production trends of the last forty years: the Blaxploitation cycle of the early-to-mid 1970s, the women-in-danger films of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the New Cold War Cinema of the mid-late 1980s, Gen-X cinema of the mid-1990s, the Post-9/11 cinema of the mid-to-late 2000s, and the cinema of financial crisis of the 2010s.