FILM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About You, Hollywood High School
9 May 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
Hollywood Cinema Readings
Party Time or Can't Hardly Wait for That American Pie: Hollywood high
school movies of the 90s
o Self-expression
o Aspects of the artists psyche
o Isolation of social reality
o Two viewpoints from which one might interest oneself in a group of films of
this nature
o Artistic - yield less profit
o Creative
o Happier, less cynical
o Sociopolitical - more productive
o Great many people have seen it
o Reflect dominant trends in our society
o Display their values
o Dramatize behaviour patterns
o Positive, progressive aspects in their treatment of today's youth
o Are these two approaches separable?
o The desire to say something and be more progressive is accompanied by
a greater, creative interest
o Sharing concerns, thematics, narrative patterns, motifs, character relations,
iconography etc.
o Sex and education
o Culture is currently sex-obsessed, used to be taboo or used only in
reference to the distinguishing of gender
o "getting laid" and "falling in love" being two different things
o Distinction between "the nice girls" (virgins) and "bitches)
o Depending on whether they attach themselves to the central
male character or dump him
o How a male's charisma is enhanced by "getting laid" but sexually
active girls are generally put down and punished
o Do you graduate by passing your exams or by getting laid or falling
in love
o Films don't express interest in education
o Few scenes are in a classroom, if they are it is interupted or to pass
notes
o Attack on the education system - capitalism
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