21L011 The Film Experience
Professor David Thorburn

Lecture 12 - American Film in the 1970s (continued)

1. Bob Fosse (1927-1987)
   • Dancer, choreographer, director
   • His favorite year: 1973
   • Films:
     • 1968: Sweet Charity      
     • 1972: Cabaret
     • 1974: Lenny
     • 1979: All that Jazz
     • 1980: Star 80
       
       
2. Cabaret
   • Beyond genre: the end of Hollywood
   • Weimar Germany and America in the late 1960s
   • Style: mise en scene and montage
   • Texture: multiplicity      
   • Musical numbers: true integration
   • Key themes:  innocence, history, the limits of satire