UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Digital Media Course: Film Genres–Musical Movie Professor Emanuel Levy Schedule of Screenings: M Jan 12: First Class–Lecture W Jan 14: The Jazz Singer, Gold Diggers of 1933 M Jan 19: Martin Luther King Holiday W Jan 21: Top Hat, Swing Time M Jan 26: Forty […]
Movie Cycles: Youth Culture–Teenpics and High-School Movies
March 31, 2019 by
We have come a long way since Judge Hardy told his son Any (Mickey Rooney) in the popular Andy Hardy film series: “We taught you how to think, your mother and I, and if you make a mistake, it’s our mistake too.” Back in the late 1980s, when I was asked to teach a course […]
Movie Cycles: Youth Culture–It All Began in the 1950s
March 31, 2019 by
“The trouble with teenagers began when some smart salesman made a group of them in order to sell bobby sox.”
Indie Cinema: Indie Directors Who Matters
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