>> 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
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