Film Theory: Subversive Films Vs. Mainstream Hollywood

Research in Progress: Jan 31, 2023

Subversive Films in Mainstream Hollywood:

The Crowd, 1927

Freaks, 1932

Fritz Lang’s first films: Fury

Kings Row, 1943

It’s Wonderful Life, 1946

Gilda, 1946

Bonjour Tristesse, 1958

Vertigo, 1958

Blue Velvet, 1986

 

 

Anxiety-Ridden Auteurs (book)

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Bang Bang, You’re Dead

Bang Bang, Kiss Kiss

Kiss Bank Kiss Bang

May We Borrow Your Husband? Graham Greene (Gay couple and married man)

American Remakes of French Films:

Les diaboliques (Diabolic)

La Cage aux Folles (Bird Cage)

 

Cruelty: Cinema of Cruelty

Belle de Jour

Dodsworth

A Streetcar Named Desire

 

Desire:

The desire to desire/be desired

Desire Unlimited

To Desire Differently

Industry of Desire (Hollywood, Stardom)

Inclusive Desire

 

Gay (Queer)

 

Hitchcock

Hollywood

New Hollywood Cinema: Sexism

Hollywood in the New Millennium

Three Faces of Hollywood: Body, Mind, Soul

Hollywood in Age of Globalism

Hollywood: Everything Is Content

Hollywood: National, International, Global Dimensions

Hollywood: Vistas, Instances, Perspectives

Hollywood and the Way We Live Now

Hollywood and the American Way of Life

Hollywood: Time and Money (Time and Money in Hollywood Movies)

 

Independent Cinema

Democracy of Images: History of American Independent Cinema

Maverick Visions

Pursuit of Loneliness

Love

Love and Death in American Film

Love and Commitment

 

Marriage

Marriage Proposals

Glenn Miller Story, The

It’s Wonderful Life

Norma Rae

Quiet Mam, The

Stagecoach

Star Is Born, A (1954)

Walk the Line

 

Movies

Influential Movies:

Citizen Kane, The Searchers, Psycho, The Graduate, The Godfather, Mean Streets

 

Movie That Shook the World

Citizen Kane

Casablanca

Rebel Without Cause

The Searchers

Psycho

James Bond

2001

The Godfather

American Graffiti

Mean Streets

Blue Velvet

Pulp Fiction

 

Movies in Context

Myths in American Movies

No quitting

I wanna be somebody; I’m gonna be somebody

The Outsiders (Coppola, 1983)

What ever happened to its actors:

Tom Cruise

Matt Dillon

Emilio Estevez

C. Thomas Howell

Rob Lowe

Ralph Macchio

Patrick Swayze

 

Plastic Surgery

A Woman’s Face, 1941

The Promise, 1979

 

Police (to Call or Not to Call)

Rebel Without a Cause

Spellbound

Quitting (Never Quit)

Blackboard Jungle

John Wayne

Sex In British and American Cinema

In many British films, sex is depicted as unsensual and unerotic

Sexual Repression

A Streetcar Named, Tea and Sympathy, Cat on Hot Tin Roof

 

Strangers in Paradise (Exiles in Hollywood)

Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood

Demy, Jacques

Hitchcock

Lang, Fritz

Murnau

Passer, Irving

Renoir, Jean

Sirk, Douglas

Varda, Agnes

Wong Kar-Wi

 

Student Revolution: Ill-Fated Movie Cycle

To Be Somebody

Women in Film: 1967-1975–worst years of their lives