This course covers the film, music, and art world cross-over activities that were unique to New York from 1977-1987. This course will screen and discuss the historical background of each film through the filters of the late 1970s through the mid 80s art world, club scene, and music with selected readings. http://catalog.academyart.edu/courseCatalog.do?triggerName=displayCourseDetail&lo_referringHit=475477101&lo_semester=57-1079&lo_online=false&lo_info=41-4161
The innovative creators and inventors of new forms of artistic _expression_ many of the films have been disregarded in academic film history, yet survive as a testament to the crucial development of what we now refer to as postmodern art. Painters, filmmakers, musicians, photographers, DJs and other creative individuals experimented and pushed the boundaries of what music and film could be through No Wave/Punk film into Underground/Independent film and the Cinema of Transgression.
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