HOLLYWOOD RENAISSANCE

Course Information
TitleΗ ΑΝΑΓΕΝΝΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΟΛΥΓΟΥΝΤ / HOLLYWOOD RENAISSANCE
CodeΜΔΣ2-468
FacultyPhilosophy
SchoolEnglish Language and Literature
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate, 2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600007258

Programme of Study: 2024-2025

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective CoursesWinter/Spring-6

Class Information
Academic Year2013 – 2014
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Class ID
600045645
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should be able to: • Demonstrate knowledge of central features, aspects and trends of American cinema post-1948 (factors that have affected the transition from Old to New Hollywood: The Paramount Decree, HUAC, TV, The Hays Office, Politics and Social Movements, Box-Office Decline) • Identify industrial changes in post-1948 American cinema (Dissolution of homogenized audience, Restructure of the Studios, Problem and Cult Movies, Roadshows, Multinational Take-overs, Independents) • Analyse form and themes of particular films in relation to a variety of industrial, social and cultural contexts. (A truly American, Independent, Arty Cinema)
General Competences
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Respect natural environment
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course is set to examine a radical change that occurred in the history of American cinema in the brief period between the mid-sixties and early-seventies, generally known as Hollywood Renaissance. The entire motion picture industry went through a radical transformation and re-organization due to a deep-seated crisis that had its roots back in World War II. The scope of this course is to trace the political, economic, social, technological and cultural changes in society and culture in order to assess their impact on the Hollywood industry’s transition from the classical to the post-classical era. The rebirth that the American Cinema experienced in this brief historical period can be seen as a yardstick for measuring Old and New Hollywood practices and cultural values.
Keywords
Hollywood industry, crisis, Hollywood Renaissance, Classical and New Hollywood, History of American Cinema, culture
Educational Material Types
  • Multimedia
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures39
Reading Assigment30
film viewing30
Total99
Student Assessment
Description
A 2 ½ hour final exam or take-home (upon special agreement with the instructor) Included in the course syllabus
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
The New Hollywood: from Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars, by Peter Krämer “Hollywood’s Major Crisis and The American Film ‘Renaissance.’” by Michalis Kokonis, an article uploaded in e-class.auth.gr
Additional bibliography for study
Allen, Michael (2002) Contemporary US Cinema. Pearson Education, London. Balio, Tino (1985) (ed) The American Film Industry. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. Balio, Tino (1990) (ed) Hollywood in the Age of Television. Unwin Hyman, London, pp 3-40. Belton, John (1994) American Cinema/American Culture, McGraw-Hill, London. Bernardoni, James. (1991). The New Hollywood: What the Movies Did with the New Freedoms of the Seventies. North Carolina: McFarland Classics. Biskind, Peter (1998) Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex ‘n’ Drugs ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. Blumsbury, London. Biskind Peter (2005) Down ’n’ Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Cinema. Simon and Schuster, New York. Bordwell, David, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson, eds. (1985) Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. Routledge, London. Buckland, Warren (1998) Teach Yourself Film Studies. Hodder and Stoughton, London. Collins, Jim, Hilary Radner and Ava Preacher Collins (1993) (eds.) Film Theory Goes to the Movies. Routledge, London. Corrigan, Timothy. (1991) A Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture After Vietnam. London: Routledge, Elsaesser, Thomas, Alexander Horwarth and Noel King, eds. (2004) The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Gilbey, Ryan. (2003) It Don’t Worry Me: Nashville, Jaws, Star Wars and Beyond. London: Faber and Faber. Hillier, Jim (1993) The New Hollywood. Vista Vision, London. Hoberman, J. (2003) The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties. New York: New Press. Hoskins, Colin, Stuart McFayden and Adam Finn (1997) Global Television and Film: An Introduction to the Economics of the Business. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Izod, John (1988) Hollywood and the Box Office. Macmillan, London. Lewis, Jon (1998) (ed.) The New American Cinema. Duke University Press, Durham. King, Geoff (2001) Spectacular Narratives: Hollywood in the Age of Blockbusters. I.B.Tauris, London. King, Geoff (2002) New Hollywood: An Introduction. Columbia University Press, New York. King, Geoff (2005) American Independent Cinema. I.B Tauris, London. Kolker, Robert (1988) A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman. 2nd edit., Oxford University Press, Oxford. Krutnik, Frank (1992) In A Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity. Routledge, London. Lev, Peter (2000) American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions. University of Texas Press, Austin. Maltby, Richard and Ian Craven (1995) Hollywood Cinema. Blackwell, Oxford. Matthews, Nicole (2001) Comic Politics: Gender in Hollywood Comedy after the New Right. Manchester University Press, Manchester. Monaco, James (1984) American Film Now: The People, The Power, The Money, The Movies. 2nd edit., Zoetrope, New York (originally published in 1979). Moran, Albert (1996) (ed) Film Policy: International, National and Regional Perspectives. Routledge, London. Neale, Steve (ed) (2002) Genre and Contemporary Hollywood. London, BFI. Neale, Steve (2000) Genre and Hollywood. Routledge, London. Neale, Steve and Murray Smith (eds.) (1998) Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Routledge, London Ray, Robert (1985) A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema 1030-1980. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Rosenbaum, Jonathan (1997) Movies as Politics. University of California Press, Berkeley. Ryan, Michael and Douglas Kellner (1990) Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis. Schatz, Thomas. (1993) “The New Hollywood.” Film Theory Goes to the Movies. (Eds.) Jim Collins, Hilary Radner and Ava Preacher Collins. New York: Routledge:. 8-36. Thompson, Kristin (1999) Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique. Harvard University Press, London. Tzioumakis, Yannis (2006) American Independent Cinema: An Introduction. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. Wasko, Janet (1994) Hollywood in the Information Age. Polity Press, Cambridge. Wasser, Frederick (2001) Vini, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR. University of Texas Press, Austin. Wood, Robin (1984) ‘The Incoherent Text: Narrative in the 70s’ in Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan. Columbia University Press, New York. Justin Wyatt (1994) High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Last Update
20-09-2013