CIN270Y1 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Cinema Of The United States, The Godfather, New Hollywood
12 Oct 2018
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Fall 2018
Tutorial Outline – 1
• What are the two main landscapes that Easy Rider depicts? American Southwest closely
associated with the frontier – a depiction that Klinger sees as traditionally nationalistic. The
South is a dystopia, opposite to the traditional frontier -the city -the poor – the dying -hostile –
this used to e a great outr a depitio tied to trasitioal atioalis. Trasitioal ie is
that America is perhaps not so great.
• Road movies are classically linked with freedom – but in Easy Rider – what are the protagonists
free from? What objects make them free?
• Cosiderig the fil’s tragi edig, do you think that it endorses freedom as conceived by the
hippies? What do you think the film thinks of its hippie characters in the commune?
• What do ou thik is eat he aptai Aeria sas e le it?
• What do you think about the Jack Nicholson character? What about his connection with the civil
rights movement? Nicholson and his death as representative of the civil rights moeet’s
failure in the south.
• What do you think about the use of style in the film? The drug scene as a radical break with
traditional hollywood style – zooms.
• Questions and discussion about the ending of the film. The meaning of the character of captain
America – his tragic ending and his bike in flames – links to ideas of nationalism
• Discussion on the use of music - speifiall sogs The Bad. The Bad’s other output as
having a link with traditional conceptions of the south: The Night e Droe Old Diie Do
• Discussion of timelines – watch scene – deadlines in Marti Gras
• Move towards grittiness when portraying America in the 70s – Taxi Driver in the suggested
reading, brief mention of Midnight Cowboy
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• Discussion of the differences between Fonda and Hopper – comparisons with idealized notions
of what a hippie is.
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