Renee Blackburn
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/28
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
How do we define 1970s America? Is it through watching dancing disco lovers at Studio 54? Is it through hearing Richard Nixon’s resignation speech? Is it through seeing the long lines of cars lining up at gas stations during the oil crisis? This four-film series brings to light the issues of gender, economic instability, and social mobility in the United States during that period. Each film provides an insight into the social and cultural America of the 1970s, pulling us through the decade’s insecurities, instabilities, and changes, only to emerge on the other side in a different decade with different views on gender, race, class and society.
During each session, we will watch a film and leave time afterward for an optional discussion. Additonally, there will be OPTIONAL, supplemental readings that accompany the films, if you're interested in reading more!
Find more details and sign up at: http://hardatworkinthe70s.weebly.com/
Sponsor(s): Science, Technology, and Society, Women's and Gender Studies
Contact: Renee Blackburn, RMBLACK@MIT.EDU
| Jan/19 | Tue | 05:00PM-08:00PM | 66-148 |
From Amazon: Two hippie bikers set out to discover "the real America" and wind up taking the ultimate bad trip.
| Jan/20 | Wed | 05:00PM-08:00PM | 66-148 |
From IMDB: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
| Jan/26 | Tue | 05:00PM-08:00PM | 66-148 |
From IMDB: A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.
| Jan/27 | Wed | 05:00PM-08:00PM | 66-148 |
From IMDB: Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.