>> Does anyone have suggestions for balancing a class on American >> auteurism (Welles, Hawks, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Coppola) with >> some interesting films by women? >Another contemporary addition might be Clueless, by Amy Heckerling. The >'light fare' knock to the film aside, I find Heckerling's ear for >teen-age vernacular quite remarkable, both in Clueless and Fast Times at >Ridgemont High. All the more remarkable since these two films deal w/ 2 >different generations of teenagers, yet pegs the characters so well. To balance the contemporary, how about a Dorothy Arzner film, such as *Dance, Girl, Dance?* (1940). Are you looking also at independent American film? *Illusions* (1981), by Julie Dash would work nicely as a rereading of Hollywood in the Forties, addressing racial issues. Gloria Monti ******************************************************************* gloria monti american studies, yale university e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~godard/index.html "he was blessed with the happiness and the nonchalant courage that come of living according to one's principles." james traub, about william kunstler ******************************************************************* ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]