I picked "70's Film and Culture" because of the influence the 70's film has on our lives now. Films like Jaws, The Godfather, The Exorcist, and Star Wars all came out in the the 70's. What would our lives be like without films like these. You can barely get though a day, especially at our school, without hearing a Star Wars reference.
I love horror films and the 70's was a huge changing point for horror. Film makers moved away from the classic Gothic movies to gore. Rather than Dracula and Frankenstein we were found watching Halloween, The Exorcist, and Carrie. The culture of the 70's is a very important part of why horror films changed in such a way. With the sexual revolution, censorship laws loosening, and a new film rating system, horror movies got to push the limits. We started seeing, more blood, more gore, and more stories with real life lines making horror films more realistic than ever before.
Good start, Erin! There are some great 70's horror films, and due to time constraints we're not seeing them. But I encourage you to watch these films, again perhaps, and respond to them in your blog. They may look "fresh" because you will be looking at them in the context of your examination of this period. We do wind up with John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, which I'm sure you'll find exciting.
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