Any ideas?

[Xyvind Stelen]

I'm studying film science at det university in Trondheim, Norway, and
it's time to decide what to write about this semester.
Last semester I wrote about "Gremlins2-the New Batch", and to much surprise
for my fellow students (many of them writing about italian art cinema,
modernism, Kieslovski's three colors, and other "important" subjects) I
finished in the top half of my class that semester.

Not to say that I don't find these types of cinema interesting, but I feel
that popular film and culture has been a neglected field of research,
at my university anyway.

I'd like to continue my "crusade" this semester, and among the subjects I
consider are the ancient fairy-tales and their relationship to modern
Hollywood productions such as "The Last Starfighter" or "the Police
Academy"- series.

Does anyone have any suggestions on interesting
movies, movies that comment or mirror western society in any way?

Xye..

[Kristen Mahan-Moutaw]

>Does anyone have any suggestions on interesting
>movies, movies that comment or mirror western society in any way?
>
>Xye..

Impressive that you could do so well with a paper about GREMLINS.

Perhaps you could study the effects of TOP GUN (and such movies) on society.
Supposedly the Navy had an influx of wannabe pilots (I know, it's been
done, but it's still interesting).

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Initiative for Clinical Outcomes in Neurosciences (ICON)
Colorado Neurological Institute

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[Steven E. Press]

Xyvind--

Here's an idea: Sandra Bullock's character in THE NET as the 1990's
version of film noir's man without an identity, and her mother's
Alzheimer's disease as an allusion to the amnesia often afflicting film
noir heroes. The loss of identity is as much, if not more, of a concern
in western society now as it was in the 40's and 50's.

Even though film noir has been extensively written about by (mostly)
French and American intellectuals, film noir itself is not "art film."

Good luck with whatever you decide to write about.

--Steve

On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Xyvind Stelen wrote:

> I'm studying film science at det university in Trondheim, Norway, and
> it's time to decide what to write about this semester.
> Last semester I wrote about "Gremlins2-the New Batch", and to much surprise
> for my fellow students (many of them writing about italian art cinema,
> modernism, Kieslovski's three colors, and other "important" subjects) I
> finished in the top half of my class that semester.
>
> Not to say that I don't find these types of cinema interesting, but I feel
> that popular film and culture has been a neglected field of research,
> at my university anyway.
>
> I'd like to continue my "crusade" this semester, and among the subjects I
> consider are the ancient fairy-tales and their relationship to modern
> Hollywood productions such as "The Last Starfighter" or "the Police
> Academy"- series.
>