21L.011 | Fall 2013 | Undergraduate

The Film Experience

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Lecture 8: The Work of Movies; Capra & Hawks

Description: Continue discussion of the Hollywood “Studio Era” of 1930s-1940s. Explore cultural implications of film as entertainment and as consensus narrative. Survey careers of Capra and Hawks, and preview their films It Happened One Night and His Girl Friday.

Instructor: David Thorburn

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